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Municipality · Rupandehi District

Sainamaina

सैनामैना नगरपालिका

A municipality in Rupandehi District, Lumbini Province, one of 17 local governments there.NP0548301

Population

78,393

2021

Households

19,445

20214.03 people each

Area

161 km²

486 per km²

Literacy

84.9%

202126th of 276

Population & Demographics

Population nationally

Population, 2021 census

78,393

National Statistics Office

41,952 women, 36,441 men — 53.5% female. 7.0% of Rupandehi.

Literacy rate, 2021 census

84.9%

Population aged 5 and over

8.6 pp above the national figure · 26th of 276.

90.9% of men, 79.8% of women — a 11.0-point gap.

84.9%

Sainamaina

81.2%

Rupandehi

78.1%

Lumbini

76.2%

Nepal

Sainamaina 84.9%, Rupandehi 81.2%, Lumbini 78.1%, Nepal 76.2%.

Literacy rate, 2021 census. Sainamaina marked in black.

Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status

The census partition behind the rate.

  • Can read and write84.9%
  • Cannot read or write14.7%
  • Can read only0.4%
  • Not stated0.0%

72,528 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 write61,57631,38430,192
Cannot read or write10,6557,7272,928
Can read only27418193
Not stated231310

In context

All places

Where Sainamaina sits among the 17 local governments of Rupandehi. By population, 2021 census.

Rupandehi by local government
40,880Population · 194,335

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. 9 more in the table below.

View all 17 local governments
Rupandehi by local governments, census
PlaceTypePopulationHouseholdsLiteracy
Butwalsub-metropolitan city194,33550,56591.3%
Tilottamamunicipality149,47935,99188.1%
Lumbini Sanskritikmunicipality87,38313,62171.1%
Sainamainamunicipality78,39319,44584.9%
Siddharthanagarmunicipality74,43615,87186.1%
Devdahamunicipality72,45717,30083.1%
Mayadevirural municipality56,1709,99073.0%
Gaidahawarural municipality56,1499,94771.3%
Kotahimairural municipality45,9757,53568.7%
Siyarirural municipality44,9859,01978.8%
Rohinirural municipality43,3277,52672.3%
Sammarimairural municipality43,0447,24269.3%
Kanchanrural municipality42,52810,44083.0%
Suddhodhanrural municipality41,9078,67681.2%
Om Satiyarural municipality41,1418,08278.2%
Marchawarirural municipality40,8806,92168.7%
Lumbini Sanskritikprotected_area———

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 →