Tumwewa Rural Municipality

Tumwewa

तुम्वेवा गाउँपालिका
Tumwewa तुम्वेवा गाउँपालिका
Rural Municipality
	Tumwewa Location in Province No. 1 Tumwewa Tumwewa (Nepal)
	Coordinates: 26°59′N 87°33′E / 26.99°N 87.55°E
Province	Province No. 1
District	Panchthar
Wards	5
Established	10 March 2017
Government
• Type	Rural Council
• Chairperson	Hom Nath Thapa (NC)
• Vice-chairperson	Dhanprashad Sawa (NCP)
Area
• Total	117.34 km2 (45.31 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	13,419
• Density	110/km2 (300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (Nepal Standard Time)
Headquarter	Mouwa
Website	official website

Tumwewa (Nepali: तुम्वेवा गाउँपालिका) is a rural municipality (gaunpalika) out of seven rural municipality located in Panchthar District of Province No. 1 of Nepal. There are a total of 8 municipalities in Panchthar in which 1 is urban and 7 are rural.

According to Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Developme Tumwewa has an area of 117.34 square kilometres (45.31 sq mi) and the total population of the municipality is 13419 as of Census of Nepal 2011.^[1]^[2]

Aangna, Olane, Hangum and Mauwa which previously were all separate Village development committee merged to form this new local level body. Fulfilling the requirement of the new Constitution of Nepal 2015, Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development replaced all old VDCs and Municipalities into 753 new local level body (Municipality).^[1]

The rural municipality is divided into total 5 wards and the headquarter of this newly formed rural municipality is situated in Mauwa.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "स्थानीय तहहरुको विवरण". www.mofald.gov.np/en. MoFALD. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
^ "CITY POPULATION – statistics, maps & charts". www.citypopulation.de. 8 October 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2018.

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