Musikot, Western Rukum

Musikot is a municipality and the district headquarters of Western Rukum District in Karnali Province, Nepal. It was established as Musikot Khalanga on 2 December 2014 by merging the former village development committees of Musikot and Khalanga, and was called Musikot Khalanga until 2018. Until 2017 it served as the headquarters of the undivided Rukum District. It lies on the bank of the Sani Bheri River and borders Eastern Rukum to the east, Sanibheri rural municipality to the west and Banfikot rural municipality to the north. The 2011 census counted 33,882 people, of whom 98.9 percent spoke Nepali as their first language.