Jump to content

Agara, Makwanpur

Coordinates: 27°41′N 85°01′E / 27.68°N 85.02°E / 27.68; 85.02
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agara
आगरा
Agara is located in Nepal
Agara
Agara
Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 27°41′N 85°01′E / 27.68°N 85.02°E / 27.68; 85.02
Country   Nepal
ZoneBagmati Province
DistrictMakwanpur District
Population
 (1991)
 • Total6,839
Time zoneUTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)

Agara (Nepali: आगरा) is a village development committee in Makwanpur District in the Bagmati Province of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 6839 people living in 1252 individual households.[1]

Demographics

[edit]

At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Agara VDC had a population of 7,836. Of these, 64.4% spoke Tamang, 35.3% Nepali, 0.2% Maithili and 0.2% other languages as their first language.

In terms of ethnicity/caste, 64.6% were Tamang, 21.4% Chhetri, 3.4% Hill Brahmin, 2.3% Magar, 2.1% Kami, 1.3% Damai/Dholi, 0.8% Gurung, 0.5% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 0.2% Sarki and 0.3% others.[2]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's Village Development Committees. Digital Himalaya. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
  2. ^ National Population and Housing Census 2011 Makawanpur [1]