Sunwal
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Sunwal is a municipality
in Nawalparasi District
in the Lumbini Zone
of southern Nepal
. It was recently announced as a municipality
combining two neighboring Village Development Committees; Sunwal
and Swathi
; of the district (by means of financial plan for the fiscal year 2011-2012 on July 16, 2011). At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
it had a population of 14,166 people living in 2720 individual households.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in Nawalparasi District
Nawalparasi District
Nawalparasi District of 562,870. This district has given birth to many Nepal's top level people including late Prime Minister Tanka Prasad Acharya...
in the Lumbini Zone
Lumbini Zone
Lumbini Zone, is one of the 14 zones of Nepal and is home to Lumbini site, the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who later became the historical Buddha and founder of the Buddhist philosophy...
of southern Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
. It was recently announced as a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
combining two neighboring Village Development Committees; Sunwal
Sunwal
Sunwal is a municipality in Nawalparasi District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. It was recently announced as a municipality combining two neighboring Village Development Committees; Sunwal and Swathi; of the district...
and Swathi
Swathi
-People:* Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma , Maharaja of the state of Travancore, India* Swathi, Tamil film actress in the 1990s* Swati Reddy, Telugu and Tamil film actress-Films:* Swathi * Swathi Muthyam, a 1985 Telugu film...
; of the district (by means of financial plan for the fiscal year 2011-2012 on July 16, 2011). At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
1991 Nepal census
The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics.Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level,...
it had a population of 14,166 people living in 2720 individual households.