Country Nepal District Lamjung District Local time Saturday 9:56 AM Population 6,611 (2011) | Zone Gandaki Zone Time zone Nepal Time (UTC+5:45) Postal code 33600 Area code 066 | |
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Weather 14°C, Wind SE at 3 km/h, 93% Humidity | ||
Gaunshahar (Nepali: गाउँशहर) is a town and market place at Besishahar Municipality in Lamjung District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. The Besishahar Municipality was formed by merging the existing Village Development Committees i.e. Besishahar, Gaunshahar, Udipur & Chandisthan in May 15, 2014. The famous temple of Lamjung Kalika & Lamjung Durbar are located here. This place is in the way of Annapurna Conservation Area. The Dumre-Besishahar-Chame highway also goes from this place. Here are different casts and religions. So they have different culture. This place has much natural beauty.
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Map of Gaunshahar, 33600, Nepal
Population
At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 6,611(3,752 Female & 2,859 Male) people living in 1,757 individual Households.
Media
To promote local culture Gaunshahar has one FM Radio station Radio Lamjung - 88.4 MHz. Radio Chautari 91.4 MHZ is also contributing for the cultural uplift for this place. Which is a Community Radio station. Kaule Pani Home stay is also promoting the local culture in Gaunshahar.