Nepal Districts

Under the seven provinces of Nepal sit 77 districts, from Bhaktapur, which fits inside the Kathmandu valley, to Dolpa, which is bigger than some countries. This is the full list, grouped by the province each one belongs to.

The quiz: Name to place, on the map
Grouped by: Province: the seven provinces of the 2015 constitution
In the game: 77 districts

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What you are looking at

The districts (jilla) of Nepal, the second tier of the country. There are 77 of them since 2017, when the old 75 became 77 by splitting Nawalparasi and Rukum each in two. Both splits cross a provincial border, so Nawalparasi East is in Gandaki and Nawalparasi West in Lumbini, and Rukum East is in Lumbini and Rukum West in Karnali. A map older than that has one district where this one has two.

The map is uneven in the way the country is. The Terai along the southern border and the valleys of the middle are cut fine, and the mountain districts of the north are enormous: Dolpa and Mustang are the largest answers by a wide margin. The smallest cluster in and around the Kathmandu valley, where Bhaktapur, Lalitpur and Kathmandu are small enough to need tap areas.

The groups are the provinces, so the game lets you drill them one at a time. Each province answers under the same name in Nepal Provinces.

How to place one

Pick one province and learn it. Madhesh, with eight, is the shortest, and Koshi, with fourteen, is the longest.
Start from the valley. Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur sit together, with Nuwakot, Dhading and Kavrepalanchok around them.
Follow the southern strip. The Terai districts line up along the Indian border, from Jhapa in the east to Kanchanpur in the far west.
Treat the north as the empty half. Its districts are large, so they are the quickest to place.

Every district, by province

Bagmati13 districts: Bhaktapur, Chitawan, Dhading, Dolakha, Kathmandu, Kavrepalanchok, Lalitpur, Makwanpur, Nuwakot, Ramechhap, Rasuwa, Sindhuli, Sindhupalchok
Lumbini12 districts: Arghakhanchi, Banke, Bardiya, Dang, Gulmi, Kapilbastu, Nawalparasi West, Palpa, Pyuthan, Rolpa, Rukum East, Rupandehi
Koshi14 districts: Bhojpur, Dhankuta, Ilam, Jhapa, Khotang, Morang, Okhaldhunga, Panchthar, Sankhuwasabha, Solukhumbu, Sunsari, Taplejung, Terhathum, Udayapur
Karnali10 districts: Dailekh, Dolpa, Humla, Jajarkot, Jumla, Kalikot, Mugu, Rukum West, Salyan, Surkhet
Madhesh8 districts: Bara, Dhanusa, Mahottari, Parsa, Rautahat, Saptari, Sarlahi, Siraha
Sudurpashchim9 districts: Achham, Baitadi, Bajhang, Bajura, Dadeldhura, Darchula, Doti, Kailali, Kanchanpur
Gandaki11 districts: Baglung, Gorkha, Kaski, Lamjung, Manang, Mustang, Myagdi, Nawalparasi East, Parbat, Syangja, Tanahu

Worked examples

Dolpa

The biggest of them

Dolpa is the largest district, a high and thinly settled block of mountain in Karnali on the Tibetan border.

Bhaktapur

The smallest of them

Bhaktapur is the smallest district, in the Kathmandu valley between Kathmandu and Kavrepalanchok. It needs a tap area on the map.

Nawalparasi East

Half of a district

Nawalparasi was split in 2015 and the halves went to different provinces: Nawalparasi East to Gandaki and Nawalparasi West to Lumbini. Rukum is split the same way.