Palapu

Palapu was a village development committee in Okhaldhunga District in the Sagarmatha Zone of mid-eastern Nepal. Now it belongs to Koshi province, okhaldhunga district, Champadevi rural municipality as per the federal governing system of Nepal. It has been divided into two wards 1 and 2. In contemporary time palapu VDC had 9 wards.
At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 3830 living in 625 individual households.According to the census of 2078 BS It holds the population of 4608 people in which ward no 1 has population of 2163 people and ward no 2 has population of 2445 people Which makes ward no 2 as a highest populated ward of Champadevi rural municipality. Palapu is the major habitat of Magar tribe. Except it there is Sunuwar, Newar, Kami, Damai, Bahun etc.