Mustang District, a part of Dhawalagiri Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Jomsom as its headquarters, covers an area of 3,573km² and has a population (2001) of 14,981. The district lies across the Himalayas in the Tibetan plateau and includes Lho Mang Thang, the last small kingdom under one of the few Nepalese principality titular kings, King Jigme Palwar Bista. The principality was abolished by the Nepalese government on October 7th, 2008. The district is famous for Muktinath (a popular Hindu pilgrimage site), its apples, and Marpha brandy. Mustang was a lost kingdom of Tibet, and was acquired some five centuries ago by Janga Bahadur Thapa. Although it is now part of Nepal, traditions remains purely Tibetan in the upper part of Mustang.Monday, August 3, 2009
Mustang District
Mustang District, a part of Dhawalagiri Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Jomsom as its headquarters, covers an area of 3,573km² and has a population (2001) of 14,981. The district lies across the Himalayas in the Tibetan plateau and includes Lho Mang Thang, the last small kingdom under one of the few Nepalese principality titular kings, King Jigme Palwar Bista. The principality was abolished by the Nepalese government on October 7th, 2008. The district is famous for Muktinath (a popular Hindu pilgrimage site), its apples, and Marpha brandy. Mustang was a lost kingdom of Tibet, and was acquired some five centuries ago by Janga Bahadur Thapa. Although it is now part of Nepal, traditions remains purely Tibetan in the upper part of Mustang.
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