Chandannath | |
Native Name: | चन्दननाथ नगरपालिका |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Nepal |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 360 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Nepal |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Nepal |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Karnali[1] |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Jumla |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Kantika Sejuwal |
Leader Title1: | Deputy Chief |
Leader Name1: | Apsara Devi Neupane |
Population As Of: | 1991 |
Population Total: | 5842 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | NST |
Utc Offset: | +5:45 |
Coordinates: | 29.17°N 82.12°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 21200 [2] |
Website: | chandannathmun.gov.np |
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).[3] [4] At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 5,842 persons living in 1,000 individual households.[5]
Kantika Sejuwal of the Nepali Congress is the first elected mayor of Chandannath; she is also the only female elected mayor in the municipality.[6]