Districts compared

Jajarkot vs Rukum West

Jajarkot (189,360 people, headquarters Khalanga (Bheri)) and Rukum West (166,740 people, headquarters Musikot) compared side by side, population, density and area. Jajarkot has 22,620 more people.

	Jajarkot	Rukum West
Population (2021)	189,360	166,740
Area	2,230 km²	1,217 km²
Density	85/km²	137/km²
Annual growth 2011-21	+0.96%/yr	+0.68%/yr
Literacy	75.5%	75.7%
Sex ratio (males/100 females)	98.71	94.68
Headquarters	Khalanga (Bheri)	Musikot
Province	Karnali	Karnali
Local levels	7	6

Jajarkot

Bheri-basin hill district at the epicentre of Nepal's deadly November 2023 earthquake

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Rukum West

The Karnali half of old Rukum, cradle district of the Maoist 'People's War', struck again by the 2023 earthquake

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Questions

Jajarkot vs Rukum West, answered

Which has more people, Jajarkot or Rukum West?+

Jajarkot district had 189,360 people at the 2021 census and Rukum West had 166,740, so Jajarkot has 22,620 more people (National Population and Housing Census 2021).

Which is larger by area, Jajarkot or Rukum West?+

Jajarkot covers 2,230 km² and Rukum West covers 1,217 km², a difference of 1,013 km². Jajarkot is the larger of the two.

Which is more densely populated, Jajarkot or Rukum West?+

Jajarkot has a density of 85 people/km² and Rukum West has 137 people/km². Rukum West is denser.

What are the headquarters of Jajarkot and Rukum West districts?+

Jajarkot district's headquarters is Khalanga (Bheri); Rukum West's is Musikot. Both districts are in Karnali Province.

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Sources & data note

All population, household, density, sex-ratio and growth figures are from the National Population and Housing Census 2021 (NSO National Report, Table 15; census reference date 25 November 2021), with 2011 comparisons from the 2011 census recalculated to current boundaries for the four districts split in 2017. Areas are the official statistical areas used by NSO/CBS, the 77 districts sum to exactly 147,181 km², not GIS polygon areas; where Wikipedia's list page prints conflicting areas for the four split districts (Nawalpur, Nawalparasi West, Rukum East, Rukum West), the NSO-consistent figures are used. Literacy rates are computed from NSO Table 24 raw counts (population aged 5+ who can read and write); the computed national aggregate, 76.25%, matches NSO's published 76.2%. Headquarters coordinates are approximate map-pin locations (±2–5 km), not surveyed points.