Lamkichuha

Lamkichuha, written Lamki Chuha in the body of its English Wikipedia article, is a municipality in Kailali District in Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. It was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the village development committees of Baliya and Chuha, and later that month the wards of Pratappur were added. It lies 72 kilometres east of Dhangadhi and 590 kilometres west of Kathmandu, with its municipal office at Bhalka. The 2011 census gave it a population of 76,007, of whom 57.5 percent spoke Nepali and 28.1 percent Tharu as a first language, and 96.4 percent were Hindu. The article describes it as one of the major commercial centres of Kailali District.