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Municipality · Saptari District

Hanumannagar Kankalini

हनुमाननगर कङ्कालिनी नगरपालिका

A municipality in Saptari District, Madhesh Province, one of 19 local governments there.NP0215309

Population

52,796

2021

Households

10,645

20214.96 people each

Area

118 km²

448 per km²

Literacy

65.3%

2021227th of 276

Population & Demographics

Population nationally

Population, 2021 census

52,796

National Statistics Office

26,031 women, 26,765 men — 49.3% female. 7.5% of Saptari.

Literacy rate, 2021 census

65.3%

Population aged 5 and over

10.9 pp below the national figure · 227th of 276.

75.1% of men, 55.3% of women — a 19.8-point gap.

65.3%

Hanumannagar Kankalini

67.7%

Saptari

63.5%

Madhesh

76.2%

Nepal

Hanumannagar Kankalini 65.3%, Saptari 67.7%, Madhesh 63.5%, Nepal 76.2%.

Literacy rate, 2021 census. Hanumannagar Kankalini marked in black.

Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status

The census partition behind the rate.

  • Can read and write65.3%
  • Cannot read or write34.5%
  • Can read only0.2%
  • Not stated0.0%

47,693 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 write31,14913,08618,063
Cannot read or write16,43310,5185,915
Can read only1065155
Not stated514

In context

All places

Where Hanumannagar Kankalini sits among the 19 local governments of Saptari. By population, 2021 census.

Saptari by local government
23,510Population · 70,803

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. 11 more in the table below.

View all 19 local governments
Saptari by local governments, census
PlaceTypePopulationHouseholdsLiteracy
Rajbirajmunicipality70,80314,13376.6%
Kanchanrupmunicipality58,46612,53567.3%
Hanumannagar Kankalinimunicipality52,79610,64565.3%
Khadakmunicipality52,77811,06969.6%
Surungamunicipality49,46010,48767.7%
Dakneshworimunicipality47,73910,00267.9%
Bode Barsainmunicipality46,0179,72268.0%
Shambhunathmunicipality39,6348,67967.1%
Tilathi Koiladirural municipality33,6586,76864.9%
Rajgadhrural municipality32,4626,67562.2%
Agnisair Krishna Sabaranrural municipality31,6346,58169.1%
Mahadewarural municipality30,3156,27959.9%
Chhinnamastarural municipality29,9466,17064.0%
Rupanirural municipality29,8776,32466.4%
Bishnupurrural municipality27,7035,46568.4%
Tirahutrural municipality24,0345,11662.4%
Balan-Bihulrural municipality23,5274,94863.8%
Saptakoshimunicipality23,5105,21874.2%
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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 →