Districts compared

Rolpa vs Arghakhanchi

Rolpa (234,793 people, headquarters Liwang (Rolpa Municipality)) and Arghakhanchi (177,086 people, headquarters Sandhikharka) compared side by side, population, density and area. Rolpa has 57,707 more people.

	Rolpa	Arghakhanchi
Population (2021)	234,793	177,086
Area	1,879 km²	1,193 km²
Density	125/km²	148/km²
Annual growth 2011-21	+0.43%/yr	-1.05%/yr
Literacy	75.6%	80%
Sex ratio (males/100 females)	87.95	83.67
Headquarters	Liwang (Rolpa Municipality)	Sandhikharka
Province	Lumbini	Lumbini
Local levels	10	6

Rolpa

Cradle of the 1996–2006 Maoist insurgency, now the Magar highlands of the Guerrilla Trek

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Arghakhanchi

The wish-granting Supa Deurali shrine, in Nepal's deepest male out-migration hills

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Questions

Rolpa vs Arghakhanchi, answered

Which has more people, Rolpa or Arghakhanchi?+

Rolpa district had 234,793 people at the 2021 census and Arghakhanchi had 177,086, so Rolpa has 57,707 more people (National Population and Housing Census 2021).

Which is larger by area, Rolpa or Arghakhanchi?+

Rolpa covers 1,879 km² and Arghakhanchi covers 1,193 km², a difference of 686 km². Rolpa is the larger of the two.

Which is more densely populated, Rolpa or Arghakhanchi?+

Rolpa has a density of 125 people/km² and Arghakhanchi has 148 people/km². Arghakhanchi is denser.

What are the headquarters of Rolpa and Arghakhanchi districts?+

Rolpa district's headquarters is Liwang (Rolpa Municipality); Arghakhanchi's is Sandhikharka. Both districts are in Lumbini 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.