Back الإسلام في نيبال Arabic নেপালে ইসলাম Bengali/Bangla اسلام در نپال Persian Islam au Népal French אסלאם בנפאל HE नेपाल में इस्लाम पन्थ Hindi Islam di Nepal ID ネパールのイスラム教 Japanese Islam di Nepal Malay नेपालमा इस्लाम धर्म Nepali
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नेपाली मुसलमान | |
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.JPG) Mosque in Kathmandu, Nepal | |
| Total population | |
| 1,483,060[1] (5.09% of the country's population)  [2] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Nepal | |
| Languages | |
| Nepali • Awadhi • Bhojpuri • Maithili • Urdu • Gurung • Tamang • Magar | |
| Religion | |
| Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Kashmiri Muslims • Bihari Muslims • Madheshi people[3] • Gorkhali Muslims • Tibetan Muslims |
| Islam by country |
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Islam (Nepali: नेपाली मुसलमान) is the third largest religion in Nepal.[4] According to the 2021 Nepal census, approximately 1.483 million Muslims, comprising 5.09% of the population, live in Nepal.[5]
Nepalese Muslims (Nepali: नेपाली मुसलमान; Nepali Musalman) are Nepalis who follow Islam. Their ancestors arrived in Nepal from different parts of South Asia and have since lived amidst the numerically dominant Hindus and Buddhists. Most muslims of Nepal ethnically are not Nepalese. They are similar to the Muslim population of Uttarpradesh and Bihar in India and they share a similar culture and speak the same language. Most of the Muslim community lives in the Terai region, while the remaining are found mainly in the city of Kathmandu and Gorkha and the western hills. The community numbers 971,056, about 3.8% of the total population of Nepal. Districts with large Muslim population include Sarlahi (9.9%), Rautahat (17.2%), Bara (11.9%), Parsa (17.3%), Banke (16%) in the western Terai, Siraha (7%), Sunsari (10%), Saptari (10%) and Gorkha (13%) hill.[6]
- ^ National Statistics Office (2021). National Population and Housing Census 2021, Caste/Ethnicity Report. Government of Nepal (Report).
- ^ "Religions in Nepal | PEW-GRF".
- ^ https://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/ind/muslimsofnepal.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Statistical Yearbook of Nepal - 2013. Kathmandu: Central Bureau of Statistics. 2013. p. 23. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ^ National Statistics Office (2021). National Population and Housing Census 2021, Caste/Ethnicity Report. Government of Nepal (Report).
- ^ Understanding Nepal : Muslims in a plural society by Mollica Dastider ISBN 978-81-241-1271-7