Bheri

Bheri, earlier known as Bheri Malika, is an urban municipality in Jajarkot District of Karnali Province, Nepal. It was established on 19 September 2015 by merging the village development committees of Khalanga, Punama, Bhur and Jagatipur, and it was left unchanged when the government reorganised local levels into 744 units on 10 March 2017 under the new constitution. The municipality covers 219.77 square kilometres and is divided into 13 wards. At the 2011 census it had 34,713 residents, almost all of whom spoke Nepali as a first language; the largest groups were Chhetri, Kami, Thakuri and Magar, and 99.2 percent of people were Hindu.