Tikapur

Tikapur is a municipality in Kailali District in Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal, on the bank of the Karnali River. It was established in January 1997 and was enlarged on 10 March 2017 by merging with the two former village development committees of Narayanpur and Dansinhapur. At the 2011 census it had 76,940 residents, of whom 41.2 percent spoke Tharu, 36.3 percent Nepali and 16.4 percent Achhami as their first language; by ethnicity 41.8 percent were Tharu and 22.6 percent Chhetri, and 94.6 percent were Hindu. Literacy stood at 67.1 percent. The article describes Tikapur as the third largest city of Sudurpashchim Province after Dhangadhi and Bhimdatta, the latter formerly called Mahendranagar, and notes that Tikapur Airport, which lies in the municipality, is out of service.