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'''Gandaki Pradesh''' ({{lang-ne|गण्डकी प्रदेश}}), is one of the [[List of provinces of Nepal|federal provinces]] formed by a [[Constitution of Nepal|new constitution]] of [[Nepal]] that was adopted on 20 September 2015.<ref name="statoids">{{cite web|url=http://www.statoids.com/unp.html|title=Nepal Provinces|publisher=statoids.com|accessdate=2016-03-21}}</ref> [[Pokhara]] is the capital city of this province. It borders [[Tibet Autonomous Region]] of [[China]] to the north, [[Province No. 3]] to the east, [[Province No. 5]] and [[Karnali Pradesh]] to the west, and the [[Province No. 5]] and [[Uttar Pradesh]] of [[India]] to the south. The total area of the province is 21,504 km². According to the [[2011 Nepal census]], the population of the province is 1,570,418 and estimated population is 2,403,757 (on 1 January 2016).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.citypopulation.de|title=Gandaki Province in Nepal population|last=|first=|date=|website=www.citypopulation.de|language=en-us|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-06-04}}</ref>

edited by - Sumit Bohora
Initially known as ''Province No. 4'', the newly elected Provincial Assembly adopted ''Gandaki Pradesh'' as the permanent name for the province in July 2018.


== Geography ==
== Geography ==

Revision as of 08:36, 15 July 2018

This is Province no. 4

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Geography

The province covers an area of 21,773 km2 which is about 14.66% of the total area of Nepal. The state is extends between 27°-20' N ~ 29°-20' N latitude and 82° 52' E ~ 85°-12' E longitude. In terms of terrain, the province is spread over the Himalayan, Hilly and Terai region of Nepal; 5,919 km2 (26.8%) of the area falls under the Himalayan region, 14,604 km2 (67.2%) of the area falls under the Hilly region and 1,310 km2 (6%) of the area falls under the Terai region.[1]

Average temperatures and precipitation for selected communities in Province No. 4[2]
Location August

(°F)

August

(°C)

January

(°F)

January

(°C)

Annual

Precipitation (mm/in)

Pokhara Lekhnath 74.8 23.8 50.4 10.2 2010.3/79.1
Baglung 72.1 22.3 47.5 8.6 1766.1/69.5
Walling 77.5 25.3 54.1 12.3 2089.7/82.3
Besishahar 72.3 22.4 47.5 8.6 1639.6/64.6
Modi 60.8 16 33.4 0.8 1094.7/43.1

Government and administration

Main articles: Provincial governments of Nepal and Provincial Assembly of Gandaki

The Governor acts as the head of the province while the Chief Minister is the head of the provincial government. The Chief Judge of the Pokhara High Court is the head of the judiciary.[3] The present Governor, Chief Minister and Chief Judge are Baburam Kunwar (governor), Prithvi Subba Gurung (chief minister) and Purushottam Bhandari.[4][5] The province has 60 provincial assembly constituencies and 18 federal House of Representative constituencies.[6]

Gandaki Pradesh has a unicameral legislature, like all of the other provinces in Nepal. The term length of provincial assembly is five years. The Provincial Assembly of Gandaki is temporarily housed at the Town Development Training Centre in Pokhara.[7]

Administrative subdivisions

See also: Districts of nepal, List of cities in Nepal, and List of gaupalikas of Nepal

Gandaki province is divided into 11 districts, which are listed below. A district is administrated by the head of the District Coordination Committee and the District Administration Officer. The districts are further dived to municipalities or rural municipalities. The municipalities include one metropolitan city and 26 municipalities. There are 58 rural municipalities in the province.[8]

  1. Baglung District[9]
  2. Gorkha District
  3. Kaski District
  4. Lamjung District
  5. Manang District
  6. Mustang District
  7. Myagdi District
  8. Nawalpur District
  9. Parbat District
  10. Syangja District
  11. Tanahun District

Demographics

Religion in Province No. 4

  Hinduism (82.89%)
  Buddhism (13.68%)
  Christianity (1.56%)
  Islam (0.77%)
  Bon (0.50%)
  Prakṛti (0.27%)
  Other or not religious (0.33%)

The province has a population of 2,403,016 which is 9.06% of the total population of Nepal. The population density is about 110 persons per square kilometre. The province has a population growth rate of -0.33%. The sex ratio is 89 males for 100 females, with a total of 948,028 males and 1,144,124 females recorded in 2011. The urban population of the region is 1,452,186 (60.5%) and the rural population is 943,652 (39.5%). About 50.1% of the population in the province are financially independent.[1]Template:Largest cities of Province No. 4

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Province Profile" (PDF). Government of Province No. 4. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ "Nepal Travel Weather Averages (Weatherbase)". Weatherbase. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  3. ^ "High Courts get their chief judges". Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  4. ^ "Prithvi Subba Gurung appointed as Province 4 CM - The Himalayan Times". The Himalayan Times. 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  5. ^ "President of Nepal administers oath to Chiefs of seven provinces | DD News". ddnews.gov.in. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  6. ^ "CDC creates 495 constituencies". The Himalayan Times. 2017-08-31. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  7. ^ "First Provincial Assembly meeting of province 4 begins". Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  8. ^ "स्थानिय तह". 103.69.124.141. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  9. ^ http://parliament.gov.np/np/ncd.html


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