Koshi Rural Municipality

KOSHI

कोशी गाउँपालिका
KOSHI कोशी गाउँपालिका
Rural Municipality
	KOSHI Location in Koshi Province KOSHI KOSHI (Nepal)
	Coordinates: 26°36′N 87°04′E / 26.6°N 87.06°E
Province	Koshi Province
District	Sunsari
Wards	8
Established	10 March 2017
Government
• Type	Rural Council
• Chairperson	Mr. AYUB ANSARI (NC)
• Vice-chairperson	Mrs. ANITA DEVI YADAV (NC)
Area
• Total	75.98 km2 (29.34 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	43,626
• Density	570/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (Nepal Standard Time)
Headquarter	Laukahi
Website	official website

Koshi (Nepali: कोशी गाउँपालिका) is a rural municipality (gaunpalika) out of six rural municipality located in Sunsari District of Koshi Province of Nepal. There are a total of 12 municipalities in Sunsari of which 6 are urban and 6 are rural.

According to the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Developme Koshi has an area of 75.98 square kilometres (29.34 sq mi) and the total population of the municipality is 43626 as of Census of Nepal 2011.^[1]^[2]

Laukahi, Paschim Kasuha, Sripurjabdi and Haripur which previously were all separate Village development committees merged to form this new local level body. Fulfilling the requirement of the new Constitution of Nepal 2015, the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development replaced all old VDCs and Municipalities with 753 new local level body (Municipality).^[1]

The rural municipality is divided into total 8 wards and the headquarter of this newly formed rural municipality is situated in Laukahi.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "स्थानीय तहहरुको विवरण". www.mofald.gov.np/en. MoFALD. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
^ "CITY POPULATION – statistics, maps & charts". www.citypopulation.de. 8 October 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2018.

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