Sunawal

Sunawal, officially the Sunwal Municipal City and today usually written Sunwal, is an urbanised city in Lumbini Province of Nepal and the most populous city of Parasi District, with 72,621 native inhabitants living in 18,689 households in 2021 and about 0.11 million people in its urban agglomeration. It stands at an altitude of 131 metres. According to its source article it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in Lumbini, founded in the fifteenth century, and the city was historically called Sunawal. It has been the home of Brahmin, Chhetri, Gurung, Magar and Newar people, forming a cosmopolitan urban community in the Himalayan foothills.