Chandannath
{{Infobox settlement
|name = Chandannath
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|native_name = चन्दननाथ नगरपालिका
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|settlement_type = Municipality
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|image_skyline = Chandannath Municiplity.jpg
|image_caption = Photo of Chandannath Municipality taken from a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
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|pushpin_map = Nepal
|pushpin_label_position = bottom
|pushpin_mapsize = 360
|pushpin_map_caption = Location in Nepal
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{flag|Nepal}}
|subdivision_type1 = Province
|subdivision_name1 = Karnali{{Cite web|url=http://www.myrepublica.com/news/36901/?categoryId=81 |title=Prov 6 named as Karnali, permanent capital in Birendranagar | publisher=myrepublica|accessdate=10 March 2018}}
|subdivision_type2 = District
|subdivision_name2 = Jumla
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|leader_title = Mayor
|leader_name = Kantika Sejuwal
|leader_title1 = Deputy Chief
|leader_name1 = Apsara Devi Neupane
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|population_as_of = 1991
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|population_total = 5842
|population_density_km2 = auto
|population_blank1_title = Ethnicities
|population_blank2_title = Religions
|timezone = NST
|utc_offset = +5:45
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|coordinates = {{coord|29.17|82.12|type:city_region:NP|display=inline,title}}
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|website = [http://www.chandannathmun.gov.np chandannathmun.gov.np]
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Chandannath is a municipality in Jumla District in the Karnali Province of Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the existing Mahat Gaun, Talium, Kartik Swami (Jumla), and Chandannath village development committees (VDCs).{{cite web|url=http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=74336 |title=72 new municipalities announced |publisher=My Republica.com |accessdate=2014-06-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140618191026/http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=74336 |archivedate=2014-06-18 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2014/05/08/news/govt-announces-72-new-municipalities/262559.html|title=Government announces 72 new municipalities|publisher=The Kathmandu Post|accessdate=2014-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006084717/http://www.ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2014/05/08/news/govt-announces-72-new-municipalities/262559.html|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=dead}} At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 5,842 persons living in 1,000 individual households.{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1 |title=Nepal Census 2001 |work=Nepal's Village Development Committees |publisher=Digital Himalaya |accessdate=11 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012163506/http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1 |archivedate=12 October 2008 }}
Politics and leadership
Kantika Sejuwal of the Nepali Congress is the first elected mayor of Chandannath; she is also the only female elected mayor in the municipality.{{Cite web|url= http://www.myrepublica.com/news/20332/ |title=Kantika Sejuwal elected mayor of Chandannath Municipality in Province-6 |publisher=República}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.un.org.np/maps/district-maps/mid-western/Jumla.pdf UN map of the municipalities of Jumla District]
{{Municipalities of Karnali Province}}
{{Jumla District}}
Category:Populated places in Jumla District
Category:Municipalities in Karnali Province
Category:Nepal municipalities established in 2014
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