Chainpur Municipality
Municipality in Sankhuwasabha District ,Kosi Zone, Nepal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chainpur is a municipality in Sankhuwasabha District in the Koshi Province of north-eastern Nepal. It was formed by merging five villages i.e. Chainpur, Siddhakali, Siddhapokhari, Baneshwar and Kharang. The municipality was implemented on 18 May 2014.[1][2] At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4933 people in 948 households.[3]
Chainpur
चैनपुर नगरपालिका | |
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Coordinates: 27.30°N 87.32°E / 27.30; 87.32 | |
Country | Nepal |
Province | Koshi Province |
District | Sankhuwasabha District |
Government | |
• Mayor | Krishna Kumar Tamang (NCP) |
• Deputy Mayor | Alina Shrestha (NCP) |
Area | |
• Total | 223.69 km2 (86.37 sq mi) |
• Rank | 10th (Province No. 1) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 27,308 |
• Density | 120/km2 (320/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+5:45 (NST) |
Postal code | 56913 |
Area code | 029 |
Website | www.chainpurmun.gov.np |
Chainpur is an ancient market place of the eastern region of Nepal. It has been famous for hundreds of years for Karuwa, a special kind of water mug with pipe tap sculptured with artistic carving on exterior of it.
It used to be district headquarters of Sankhuwasabha before it was shifted to Khandbari.
Chainpur is famous for making Khukuri.