Lekbeshi

Lekbeshi is an urban municipality in Surkhet District, part of Karnali Province of Nepal. It covers about 180.9 square kilometres and is divided into ten wards. The municipality was established on 10 March 2017, when the Government of Nepal replaced the old administrative structure with 744 local level units, and it was formed from the village development committees of Lekhfarsa, Dasarathpur, Neta, Kalyan and Satokhani. Its headquarters are at Kalyan. The article gives the 2011 census population as 30,295 in its introduction, although its demographic section reports 31,583. Most residents speak Nepali, while around a fifth speak Magar, and Magar, Chhetri, Kami and Hill Brahmin communities make up the bulk of the population. Hinduism is the main religion, with Christian and Buddhist minorities.