Districts compared

Rautahat vs Makwanpur

Rautahat (813,573 people, headquarters Gaur) and Makwanpur (466,073 people, headquarters Hetauda) compared side by side, population, density and area. Rautahat has 347,500 more people.

	Rautahat	Makwanpur
Population (2021)	813,573	466,073
Area	1,126 km²	2,426 km²
Density	723/km²	192/km²
Annual growth 2011-21	+1.63%/yr	+0.99%/yr
Literacy	57.8%	77.8%
Sex ratio (males/100 females)	100.8	100.67
Headquarters	Gaur	Hetauda
Province	Madhesh	Bagmati
Local levels	18	10

Rautahat

Bajjika-speaking heartland with more municipalities (16) than any other Nepali district

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Makwanpur

Hetauda, the capital of Bagmati Province, beneath the Daman viewpoint on the Tribhuvan Highway

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Questions

Rautahat vs Makwanpur, answered

Which has more people, Rautahat or Makwanpur?+

Rautahat district had 813,573 people at the 2021 census and Makwanpur had 466,073, so Rautahat has 347,500 more people (National Population and Housing Census 2021).

Which is larger by area, Rautahat or Makwanpur?+

Rautahat covers 1,126 km² and Makwanpur covers 2,426 km², a difference of 1,300 km². Makwanpur is the larger of the two.

Which is more densely populated, Rautahat or Makwanpur?+

Rautahat has a density of 723 people/km² and Makwanpur has 192 people/km². Rautahat is denser.

What are the headquarters of Rautahat and Makwanpur districts?+

Rautahat district's headquarters is Gaur; Makwanpur's is Hetauda. Rautahat is in Madhesh Province, Makwanpur in Bagmati 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.