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Nepal Hazard Risk Assessment
2.4 ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES
2.4.1 NEPAL GEOGRAPHICAL DEVELOPMENT REGION (GEO-DEVELOPMENT REGION)
Administratively, Nepal is divided into seventy-five district grouped into five development regions
which includes Far western, Mid-western, Western, Central and Eastern regions. Geographically, the
country is divided into three regions – a mountain region, a hill region and a plain region (Terai) – which
run parallel from east to west with the high mountains along the northern border and the Terai to the
south. Thus whole country is divided into 15 zone of Geo-Development Regions which is shown in
Figure 2.2. Table within the figure shows the details of development and geographical region with
number of VDCs in each district. The table 2.3 shows the details of districts and number of VDCs in
each Geo-Development Regions.
2.4.2 VDC (VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COMMITEES) MAP
The districts are further divided into village development committees (VDCs) and municipalities.
Currently, there are 3915 VDCs and 58 municipalities in the country (ICIMOD and CBS, 2003b). The
location of VDCs may be referred at Figure 2.3. Blue color in the figure showed municipality zones.
Figure 2.3. National Map showing VDCs in each district (source for VDC boundary: (DOS, 2001))
Figure 2.2. Geo-development Zones of Nepal(Source: (DOS, 2001))
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