Municipality · Banke District
Kohalpur
कोहलपुर नगरपालिका
A municipality in Banke District, Lumbini Province, one of 8 local governments there.NP0557301
Population
101,667
2021
Households
24,183
20214.20 people each
Area
184 km²
552 per km²
Literacy
82.6%
202158th of 276
Population & Demographics
Population, 2021 census
101,667
National Statistics Office
52,699 women, 48,968 men — 51.8% female. 16.9% of Banke.
Education
Literacy rate, 2021 census
82.6%
Population aged 5 and over
6.4 pp above the national figure · 58th of 276.
88.4% of men, 77.3% of women — a 11.1-point gap.
82.6%
Kohalpur
73.4%
Banke
78.1%
Lumbini
76.2%
Nepal
Kohalpur 82.6%, Banke 73.4%, Lumbini 78.1%, Nepal 76.2%.
Literacy rate, 2021 census. Kohalpur marked in black.
Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status
The census partition behind the rate.
- Can read and write82.6%
- Cannot read or write16.8%
- Can read only0.6%
- Not stated0.0%
93,943 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.
View all 4 categories
| Literacy status | All | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can read and write | 77,604 | 38,074 | 39,530 |
| Cannot read or write | 15,773 | 10,818 | 4,955 |
| Can read only | 528 | 336 | 192 |
| Not stated | 38 | 19 | 19 |
In context
Where Kohalpur sits among the 8 local governments of Banke. By population, 2021 census.
Population
Households
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.
View all 8 local governments
| Place | Type | Population | Households | Literacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nepalganj | sub-metropolitan city | 164,444 | 34,565 | 76.2% |
| Kohalpur | municipality | 101,667 | 24,183 | 82.6% |
| Baijanath | rural municipality | 69,472 | 16,469 | 77.9% |
| Rapti Sonari | rural municipality | 66,445 | 14,946 | 75.0% |
| Khajura | rural municipality | 62,789 | 13,706 | 75.3% |
| Janaki | rural municipality | 46,141 | 8,826 | 67.1% |
| Narainapur | rural municipality | 43,206 | 8,488 | 47.9% |
| Duduwa | rural municipality | 43,135 | 8,051 | 55.4% |
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 →