Kalinchowk Rural Municipality

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Kalinchowk Rural Municipality is in Dolakha District in Bagmati Province, Nepal. It covers about 132.49 square kilometers and had a population of 22,954 in 2011. The municipality was created on March 10, 2017, when Nepal restructured local governments. It merged the former Kalinchowk, Babare, Lamidanda, Lapilang, Sunakhani, and Sundrawati village development committees into one municipality. It has 9 wards, with Sunakhani as the administrative center.

Kalinchowk is a hill station and popular tourist spot, located at an elevation of 3,842 meters, about 150 kilometers northeast of Kathmandu. People visit for trekking and skiing, and it often snows in December through February (Paush and Magh in the Nepali calendar).

Demographics (2011): The main languages were Nepali (60.2%) and Thangmi (34.0%), with smaller shares of Tamang and others. The largest ethnic groups were Thami (36.7%) and Chhetri (35.8%), followed by Hill Brahmin and others. Religions were Hindu (69.7%), Prakriti (24.0%), Buddhist (4.5%), and Christian (1.6%). Literacy stood at about 62.6% can read and write, 2.7% can only read, and 34.3% cannot read.

Kalinchowk used to be its own village development committee from 1990 to 2017. The Kalinchowk village covered 38.19 square kilometers and had 2,806 people in 2011. Now it is Ward No. 1 of Kalinchowk Rural Municipality.