Gaunsahar

Gaunshahar गाउँशहर (in Nepali)
City
Painting Of Lamjung Durbar
Country	Nepal
Zone	Gandaki Zone
District	Lamjung District
Government
• Type	Besishahar Municipality
Population (2011)
• Total	6,611
Time zone	Nepal Time (UTC+5:45)
Postal Code	33600
Area code(s)	066

Gaunshahar (Nepali: ) 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.

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.

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.