Agara, Makwanpur Explained

Agara
Native Name:आगरा
Settlement Type:Village development committee
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Pushpin Map:Nepal
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
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Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Nepal
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Nepal
Subdivision Type1:Zone
Subdivision Name1:Bagmati Province
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Makwanpur District
Population As Of:1991
Population Total:6839
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Timezone:Nepal Time
Utc Offset:+5:45
Coordinates:27.68°N 85.02°W

Agara (Nepali: आगरा) is a village development committee in Makwanpur District in the Bagmati Province of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 6839 people living in 1252 individual households.[1]

Demographics

At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Agara VDC had a population of 7,836. Of these, 64.4% spoke Tamang, 35.3% Nepali, 0.2% Maithili and 0.2% other languages as their first language.

In terms of ethnicity/caste, 64.6% were Tamang, 21.4% Chhetri, 3.4% Hill Brahmin, 2.3% Magar, 2.1% Kami, 1.3% Damai/Dholi, 0.8% Gurung, 0.5% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 0.2% Sarki and 0.3% others.[2]

References

  1. Web site: Nepal Census 2001 . Nepal's Village Development Committees . . 9 December 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081012163506/http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/nepalcensus/form.php?selection=1 . 12 October 2008 .
  2. National Population and Housing Census 2011 Makawanpur https://nepalindata.com/resource/NATIONAL-POPULATION-AND-HOUSING-CENSUS-2011--VILLAGE-DEVELOPMENT-COMMITTEE-MUNICIPALITY-MAKAWANPUR/