Punarbas

Punarbas, spelled Punarwas in the opening of its source article, is a municipality in Kanchanpur District in Sudurpashchim Province in the south-west of Nepal. The municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging three existing village development committees, Parasan, Tribhuwanbasti and Kalika. The source gives two census figures for the 2011 count, 43,996 in its introduction and 53,672 in its demographics section, so the population is recorded here with that caveat. The first languages of the residents are mixed: Nepali is spoken by about a third, followed by Doteli, Tharu and Tamang. The Chhetri, Tharu, Kami, Tamang and Hill Brahmin communities are the largest groups, about 84 percent of residents are Hindu, and there are Christian and Buddhist minorities.