Lamjung District, a part of Province No. 4, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Besisahar as its district headquarters, covers an area of and had a population of 167,724. Lamjung lies in the mid-hills of Nepal with spanning from tropical to trans-himalyan geo-ecological belts,including the geographical midpoint of the country(ie.Duipiple). It has mixed habitation of different cast and ethnicity - host probably the highest density of Gurung ethnic population in the country.