Nalgad

Nalgad, earlier called Tribeni Nalgad, is an urban municipality in Jajarkot District of Karnali Province in Nepal, with its headquarters at Khagenkot. It was established on 10 March 2017, when the government restructured the old administrative units into 744 local levels under the new constitution, by joining the village committees of Dandagaun, Lahaili, Khagenkot, Ragda and Bhagawati Tol. It is divided into thirteen wards and covers 387.44 square kilometres. At the 2011 census it had about 25,590 people, 99.3 percent of whom spoke Nepali as their first language, with Magar and Kham speakers making up the rest; Chhetri, Kami, Magar and Thakuri were the largest caste and ethnic groups and 98.3 percent were Hindu.