Editing Nepal (section)

=== Administrative divisions ===
{{Main|Administrative divisions of Nepal}}
{{Nepal province labelled map}}
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! Province
! Capital
! [[List of districts of Nepal|Districts]]
! Area<br/>(km<sup>2</sup>)
! [[List of Nepalese provinces by population|Population]]<br/>Census<br/>2011
! [[List of Nepalese provinces by population|Population]]<br/>Census<br/>2021
! Density<br/>(people/km<sup>2</sup>)<br/>2021
! [[List of Nepalese provinces by Human Development Index|Human<br>Development<br>Index]]
! Map
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|[[Koshi Province]]||[[Biratnagar]]|| align="center" |14|| align="right" |25,905|| align="right" |4,534,943|| align="right" |4,972,021|| align="center" |192|| align="center" |0.553||[[File:Nepal Province 1.svg|100px]]
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|[[Madhesh Province]]||[[Janakpur]]|| align="center" |8|| align="right" |9,661|| align="right" |5,404,145|| align="right" |6,126,288|| align="center" |634|| align="center" |0.485||[[File:Nepal Madhesh Province.svg|100px]]
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|[[Bagmati Province]]||[[Hetauda]] || align="center" |13|| align="right" |20,300|| align="right" |5,529,452|| align="right" |6,084,042|| align="center" |300|| align="center" |0.560||[[File:Nepal Province 3.svg|100px]]
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|[[Gandaki Province]]||[[Pokhara]] || align="center" |11|| align="right" |21,856|| align="right" |2,403,757|| align="right" |2,479,745|| align="center" |113|| align="center" |0.567||[[File:Nepal Province 4.svg|100px]]
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|[[Lumbini Province]]||[[Deukhuri]]|| align="center" |12|| align="right" |19,707|| align="right" |4,499,272|| align="right" |5,124,225|| align="center" |260|| align="center" |0.519||[[File:Nepal Province 5.svg|100px]]
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|[[Karnali Province]]||[[Birendranagar]]|| align="center" |10|| align="right" |30,213|| align="right" |1,570,418|| align="right" |1,694,889|| align="center" |56|| align="center" |0.469||[[File:Nepal Karnali.svg|100px]]
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|[[Sudurpashchim Province]]||[[Godawari, Seti|Godawari]]|| align="center" |9|| align="right" |19,539|| align="right" |2,552,517|| align="right" |2,711,270|| align="center" |139|| align="center" |0.478||[[File:Nepal Sudurpashchim Pradesh.svg|100px]]
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!Nepal
![[Kathmandu]]
![[List of districts of Nepal|77]]
!147,181
!26,494,504
!29,192,480
!198
!0.579
![[File:Nepal grey.svg|frameless|100x100px]]
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Nepal is a federal republic comprising [[List of provinces of Nepal|7 provinces]]. Each province is composed of 8 to 14 districts. The districts, in turn, comprise local units known as urban and rural municipalities.<ref name=con15/> There is a total of 753 local units which includes 6 metropolitan municipalities, 11 sub-metropolitan municipalities and 276 municipalities for a total of 293 urban municipalities, and 460 rural municipalities.<ref name=asia1>{{cite web |title=Diagnostic Study of Local Governance in Federal Nepal 2017 |author=Australian Government-The Asia Foundation Partnership on Subnational Governance in Nepal |publisher=[[The Asia Foundation]] |url=https://asiafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Diagnostic-Study-of-Local-Governance-in-Federal-Nepal-07112018.pdf |access-date=20 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720153050/https://asiafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Diagnostic-Study-of-Local-Governance-in-Federal-Nepal-07112018.pdf |archive-date=20 July 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Each local unit is composed of wards. There are 6,743 wards in total.

The local governments enjoy executive and legislative as well as limited judicial powers in their local jurisdiction. The provinces have unicameral parliamentary Westminster system of governance. The local and provincial governments exercise some absolute powers and some powers shared with provincial or federal government. The district coordination committee, a committee composed of all elected officials from the local governments in the district, has a very limited role.<ref name=con15/><ref name=asia1/>