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Municipality · Kapilbastu District

Buddhabhumi

बुद्धभूमी नगरपालिका

A municipality in Kapilbastu District, Lumbini Province, one of 10 local governments there.NP0549302

Population

76,507

2021

Households

15,379

20214.97 people each

Area

367 km²

209 per km²

Literacy

71.5%

2021186th of 276

Population & Demographics

Population nationally

Population, 2021 census

76,507

National Statistics Office

39,556 women, 36,951 men — 51.7% female. 11.2% of Kapilbastu.

Literacy rate, 2021 census

71.5%

Population aged 5 and over

4.8 pp below the national figure · 186th of 276.

79.7% of men, 63.9% of women — a 15.8-point gap.

71.5%

Buddhabhumi

71.8%

Kapilbastu

78.1%

Lumbini

76.2%

Nepal

Buddhabhumi 71.5%, Kapilbastu 71.8%, Lumbini 78.1%, Nepal 76.2%.

Literacy rate, 2021 census. Buddhabhumi marked in black.

Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status

The census partition behind the rate.

  • Can read and write71.5%
  • Cannot read or write28.2%
  • Can read only0.3%
  • Not stated0.1%

69,743 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 write49,85023,17226,678
Cannot read or write19,63712,9406,697
Can read only21512986
Not stated412021

In context

All places

Where Buddhabhumi sits among the 10 local governments of Kapilbastu. By population, 2021 census.

Kapilbastu by local government
43,291Population · 96,714

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
Kapilbastu by local governments, census
PlaceTypePopulationHouseholdsLiteracy
Bangangamunicipality96,71423,32581.4%
Kapilbastumunicipality88,87415,38273.1%
Shivarajmunicipality84,81016,24172.7%
Buddhabhumimunicipality76,50715,37971.5%
Krishnanagarmunicipality70,11110,67067.0%
Maharajganjmunicipality64,6459,82067.7%
Mayadevirural municipality55,9728,44372.6%
Shuddhodhanrural municipality52,8618,54367.3%
Yasodhararural municipality44,9006,99969.4%
Bijayanagarrural municipality43,2917,05964.2%

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 →