Districts compared

Surkhet vs Jajarkot

Surkhet (415,126 people, headquarters Birendranagar) and Jajarkot (189,360 people, headquarters Khalanga (Bheri)) compared side by side, population, density and area. Surkhet has 225,766 more people.

	Surkhet	Jajarkot
Population (2021)	415,126	189,360
Area	2,451 km²	2,230 km²
Density	169/km²	85/km²
Annual growth 2011-21	+1.62%/yr	+0.96%/yr
Literacy	82.7%	75.5%
Sex ratio (males/100 females)	92.74	98.71
Headquarters	Birendranagar	Khalanga (Bheri)
Province	Karnali	Karnali
Local levels	9	7

Surkhet

Karnali's provincial capital Birendranagar and the 12th-century Kakrebihar temple

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Jajarkot

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

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Questions

Surkhet vs Jajarkot, answered

Which has more people, Surkhet or Jajarkot?+

Surkhet district had 415,126 people at the 2021 census and Jajarkot had 189,360, so Surkhet has 225,766 more people (National Population and Housing Census 2021).

Which is larger by area, Surkhet or Jajarkot?+

Surkhet covers 2,451 km² and Jajarkot covers 2,230 km², a difference of 221 km². Surkhet is the larger of the two.

Which is more densely populated, Surkhet or Jajarkot?+

Surkhet has a density of 169 people/km² and Jajarkot has 85 people/km². Surkhet is denser.

What are the headquarters of Surkhet and Jajarkot districts?+

Surkhet district's headquarters is Birendranagar; Jajarkot's is Khalanga (Bheri). 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.