Districts compared

Lalitpur vs Mugu

Lalitpur (551,667 people, headquarters Lalitpur (Patan)) and Mugu (64,549 people, headquarters Gamgadhi (Chhayanath Rara)) compared side by side, population, density and area. Lalitpur has 487,118 more people.

	Lalitpur	Mugu
Population (2021)	551,667	64,549
Area	385 km²	3,535 km²
Density	1,433/km²	18/km²
Annual growth 2011-21	+1.58%/yr	+1.49%/yr
Literacy	88.1%	68.1%
Sex ratio (males/100 females)	100.95	100.66
Headquarters	Lalitpur (Patan)	Gamgadhi (Chhayanath Rara)
Province	Bagmati	Karnali
Local levels	6	4

Lalitpur

Patan Durbar Square and the Newar fine-arts city of Lalitpur

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Mugu

Rara, Nepal's largest lake, set in one of the country's remotest districts

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Questions

Lalitpur vs Mugu, answered

Which has more people, Lalitpur or Mugu?+

Lalitpur district had 551,667 people at the 2021 census and Mugu had 64,549, so Lalitpur has 487,118 more people (National Population and Housing Census 2021).

Which is larger by area, Lalitpur or Mugu?+

Lalitpur covers 385 km² and Mugu covers 3,535 km², a difference of 3,150 km². Mugu is the larger of the two.

Which is more densely populated, Lalitpur or Mugu?+

Lalitpur has a density of 1,433 people/km² and Mugu has 18 people/km². Lalitpur is denser.

What are the headquarters of Lalitpur and Mugu districts?+

Lalitpur district's headquarters is Lalitpur (Patan); Mugu's is Gamgadhi (Chhayanath Rara). Lalitpur is in Bagmati Province, Mugu 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.