Mangalsen

Mangalsen is a municipality in the far west of Nepal and the administrative capital of Achham District in Sudurpashchim Province. It was created on 18 May 2014 when several former village development committees, namely Janalibandali, Kuntibandali, Oligaun, Jupu and Kalagaun, were merged into a single local unit. At the 2011 census of Nepal the municipality counted 32,507 residents living in 6,604 households. Mangalsen is also remembered as a major scene of fighting between Maoist rebels and government forces during the Nepalese Civil War, which makes it a place of some importance in the recent political history of the country.