Rapti

Rapti Municipality lies in the eastern part of Chitwan District in Bagmati Province of Nepal. It was formed as a municipality in 2015 by merging five village development committees: Birendranagar, Bhandara, Piple, Lothar and Korak. It covers 99.40 square kilometres and has thirteen wards. Prabha Baral and Iman Singh Lama were elected its first mayor and deputy mayor in the local election of 2017. The English Wikipedia article gives two different population figures, 46,510 in its introduction from the census of 2068 in the Bikram Sambat calendar and 59,937 in its demographics section for the 2011 census, so no single count is stated here. Nepali is the first language of most residents, followed by Chepang, Tamang and Tharu, and the population is mainly Hindu with Buddhist and Christian minorities.