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Municipality · Tanahu District

Bhanu

भानु नगरपालिका

A municipality in Tanahu District, Gandaki Province, one of 10 local governments there.NP0440303

Population

42,794

2021

Households

12,705

20213.37 people each

Area

184 km²

232 per km²

Literacy

77.5%

2021130th of 276

Population & Demographics

Population nationally

Population, 2021 census

42,794

National Statistics Office

23,277 women, 19,517 men — 54.4% female. 13.3% of Tanahu.

Literacy rate, 2021 census

77.5%

Population aged 5 and over

1.3 pp above the national figure · 130th of 276.

87.2% of men, 69.6% of women — a 17.5-point gap.

77.5%

Bhanu

81.6%

Tanahu

81.7%

Gandaki

76.2%

Nepal

Bhanu 77.5%, Tanahu 81.6%, Gandaki 81.7%, Nepal 76.2%.

Literacy rate, 2021 census. Bhanu marked in black.

Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status

The census partition behind the rate.

  • Can read and write77.5%
  • Cannot read or write21.3%
  • Can read only0.9%
  • Not stated0.2%

39,979 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.

View all 4 categories
Population aged 5 and over by literacy status and sex, 2021
Literacy statusAllFemaleMale
Can read and write30,99815,27315,725
Cannot read or write8,5326,3792,153
Can read only375245130
Not stated744034

In context

All places

Where Bhanu sits among the 10 local governments of Tanahu. By population, 2021 census.

Tanahu by local government
14,334Population · 78,939

One order throughout, set by population, so a mark out of step ranks differently on that measure. Counts are bars from zero; rates are dots on a trimmed axis, because a rate is not additive and its spread matters more than its distance from nothing. 2 more in the table below.

View all 10 local governments
Tanahu by local governments, census
PlaceTypePopulationHouseholdsLiteracy
Byasmunicipality78,93922,58585.3%
Shuklagandakimunicipality55,62015,27286.8%
Bhanumunicipality42,79412,70577.5%
Bhimadmunicipality29,2487,97079.7%
Myagderural municipality23,5786,51582.2%
Aanbu Khairenirural municipality22,2526,13682.1%
Bandipurrural municipality18,5325,20879.5%
Rhishingrural municipality17,9184,66971.6%
Devghatrural municipality14,5843,67075.4%
Ghiringrural municipality14,3343,78373.0%

Sources and coverage

  • Nepal — Subnational Population StatisticsUnited Nations Population Fundcc-by-igo-3.0
  • Nepal — National Population and Housing Census 2021National Statistics Officenso-official-statistics

Measures such as gdp per capita, life expectancy at birth, and under-5 mortality rate are published for Nepal as a whole and are not broken down to this level by their source, so they have no section here. All indicators and their coverage →