Rainas

Rainas is a municipality of Lamjung District in Gandaki Province of central Nepal. It was declared on 19 September 2015 by merging six existing village development committees of eastern Lamjung, with a combined area of 73 square kilometres. Tinpiple, in the former Chakratirtha committee, serves as its centre and headquarter. At the 2011 census Rainas had a population of 18,527, a density of 254 people per square kilometre. The name comes from Rainaskot, the historic fort that was a major stronghold of the old Lamjung State. The region is linked to Bhakti Thapa, who administered it in the early nineteenth century and defended Nepal against the British.