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Nepal Municipalities Map

The new clean geojson data is created by combining geojson-data from mofald and localboundries.oknp.org as there were certain municipalites missing in one source while present in another and vice-versa. Each geojson feature contains the following properties. wards is count of wards in that particular municipality.

{
  "type": "Feature",
  "properties": {
    "locallevel_fullcode": 55801,
    "province": 5,
    "district_code": 58,
    "district": "Bardiya",
    "locallevel_code": 1,
    "locallevel_name": "Badhaiyatal",
    "locallevel_name_nepali": "बढैयाताल गाउँपालिका",
    "locallevel_type": "Gaunpalika",
    "wards": 9.0
  }
}

There are 2 geojson files - high resolution municipalites.high.geojson [44.71 MB] and simplified municipalities.simplified.geojson [3.46 MB]. Use the one appropriate for you.

You may use the municapalities.csv for names and codes only if you don’t need coordinates data.

Inside Geojson

There are 775 entries (instead of 753) in geojson and csv file. That’s because there are other areas besides municipalities.

Type	Count
Development Area	1
Gaunpalika	461
Hunting Reserve	3
Mahanagarpalika	6
Nagarpalika	276
National Park	11
Upamahanagarpalika	11
Watershed and Wildlife Reserve	1
Wildlife Reserve	5
Total	775

However if you count the number of palikas (municipalites) in geojson, you will see that there’s 754 instead of 753.

Locallevel Type	Count
Gaunpalika	461
Mahanagarpalika	6
Nagarpalika	276
Upamahanagarpalika	11
Total	754

Don’t worry. The extra municipality is due to “Bansagadhi” - a municipality of Badriya which has 2 polygon regions as shown below.

Here’s the complete map of Nepal showing municipalities and all other regions.