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Demographics

At the 2011 Nepal census, Sunwal City had a population of 39,847 people living in 8,639 individual households. After the announcement of the municipality by combining two VDCs, the total population of Sunwal Municipality increased to more than 100,000, which is the highest for any municipality in Nawalparasi district. Swathi alone had a population of 10,629 with 2,102 individual households.
There are informal settlements of squatters at Kerabari, Ramuwapur, Simaltari Charpala, Sirjanatole and Sundarbasti.

Nearby tourist attractions

The Ramagrama stupa is a stupa located in Ramgram Municipality, about 11 km from Sunwal. This Buddhist pilgrimage site, which was constructed around 2500 BCE, contains relics of Gautama Buddha. According to Buddhist texts, after Buddha's Mahaparinirvana, his cremated remains were divided and distributed among the princes of eight of the 16 mahājanapadās. Each of the princes constructed a stupa at or near his capital city, within which the respective portion of the ashes was enshrined. One of them was Rāmagrāma, a major city of the Koliya kingdom at that time.
As of today, the Ramagrama stupa is the only intact and original stupa that contains relics of Buddha. The high stupa is now buried under a mound of earth and is awaiting further research.