Lamjung Districtलमजुङ जिल्ला

Lamjung rises through 1,692 km² of the Marsyangdi valley, from subtropical river flats below 500 m to glaciated ridges above 5,000 m on the shoulder of the Annapurna and Manaslu ranges. The Marsyangdi river is the district's spine, and the headquarters Besisahar on its bank is the classic trailhead of the Annapurna Circuit — the long trek up the Marsyangdi to the Thorong La (5,416 m) that is regularly voted among the world's best walks. The district's southern slopes around Bhujung and Ghanpokhara fall within the Annapurna Conservation Area.

The district is the historic heartland of the Gurung people — Wikipedia's district survey describes it as probably the highest concentration of Gurung population in the country — and hill villages such as Ghale Gaun above Besisahar have become flagship community-homestay destinations. The 2021 census counted 155,852 people, down from 167,724 in 2011 (−0.70% a year), with a sex ratio of 90.59 reflecting the district's deep tradition of Gurkha soldiering and overseas labour migration; literacy is 77.5%. Terraced rice, maize and millet farming and remittances anchor household incomes.

Lamjung's other modern identity is hydropower: the Marsyangdi corridor through the district carries a cascade of plants including the NEA's 70 MW Middle Marsyangdi station at Siundibar (commissioned 2008), the 50 MW Upper Marsyangdi A at Bhulbhule and the 30 MW Nyadi project, with more under construction upstream. Historically, Lamjung was one of the Chaubisi principalities, and the hilltop Lamjung Durbar above Gaunshahar recalls the kingdom from which the Shah rulers of neighbouring Gorkha branched in the sixteenth century.