Where is Pyuthan Municipality located?

Pyuthan Municipality is located in Pyuthan District, Lumbini Province, Nepal.

What is the elevation of Pyuthan Municipality?

Pyuthan Municipality is at an elevation of 911 m above sea level.

Pyuthan Municipality

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Pyuthan is a municipality in the Pyuthan District in the Lumbini Province of Nepal. This municipality is named after the district name Pyuthan. It is also the major market center and the administrative center of district. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the existing VDCs Khaira, Dakha Kwadi, Bijaya Nagar, Bijuwar, Dharmawati, Maranthana and Khalanga village development committees. In 2017, when GoN restructured the local level bodies into 753 units, Pyuthan Municipality was also restructured excluding ward no. 1, 2, 3, 5 and 18 from old structure, further two other VDCs; Majhkot and Jumrikanda added, Khalanga separated and managed the municipality into 10 new wards. Nayabajar Jumri and Bijuwar are the major markets of Pyuthan Municipality.

Quick facts

Type: human settlement, municipality of Nepal wd
Located in: Pyuthan District (district of Nepal) › Lumbini Province (province of Nepal) wd
Elevation: 911 m wd
Established: 2014 wd
Official website: pyuthanmun.gov.np wd
Coordinates: 28.1000° N, 82.8667° E wd

About

The town is situated about 500 meters above the intensively cultivated floodplain of Jhimruk Khola about 15 kilometers north of the Mahabharat Range in the Middle Hills. Besides expansive views of Jhimruk valley, there are limited views of a few peaks in the western part of the Dhaulagiri range off to the north. The town is populated by government officials, soldiers, and police of Magar and other "hill tribes" and their mostly Chhettri officers, by Newar merchants, by civil servants recruited mostly from local Brahmin and Chhetri castes, as well as menial castes who labor as tailors, cobblers, blacksmiths and construction workers.

Before King Gyanendra was removed from office in 2008B.S, this district center was virtually a royalist island in a republican sea. Pyuthan district was the home base of Mohan Bikram Singh who was a charter member of the Communist Party of Nepal. Singh did extensive organizational work in his home district and other parts of Rapti Zone, resulting in local opposition to the Shah dynasty that largely ran the country. Although M. B. Singh was marginalized in leftist…

Nearby places

Bijaya Nagar — 2 km
Bijuwar — 2 km
Majhakot, Rapti — 3 km
Dhobaghat — 4 km
Pyuthan District — 4 km
Maranthana — 4 km

Questions

Where is Pyuthan Municipality located?: Pyuthan Municipality is located in Pyuthan District, Lumbini Province, Nepal.
What is the elevation of Pyuthan Municipality?: Pyuthan Municipality is at an elevation of 911 m above sea level.

Sources

Last updated 31 October 2026 · facts checked 3 November 2026

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