Mustang District, a part of Dhawalagiri Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. Dhawalagiri (Dhaulagiri is one of the fourteen zones of Nepal. The 14 administrative zones (अञ्चल of Nepal are subdivided into 75 districts (जिल्ला Nepal (नेपाल) is a Landlocked country in South Asia. A landlocked country is commonly defined as one enclosed or nearly enclosed by land The district, with Jomsom as its headquarters, covers an area of 3,573 km² and has a population (2001) of 14,981. Jomsom, also known as Dzongsam or New Fort is a town located at an altitude of 2800m in Mustang, Nepal. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.
The district lies across the Himalayas in the Tibetan plateau and encloses the Lho Mang Thang, a small kingdom under one of the few Nepalese principality titular kings, King Jigme Palwar Bista. Lo Manthang is a walled village in Nepal, located in the Mustang District of the Dhawalagiri Zone and surrounded by the Himalayas. The district is famous for Muktinath (a popular Hindu pilgrimage site), its apples and distilled product Marpha brandy. The temple The shrine of Muktinath is considered one of the eight most sacred shrines for Hindu Vaishnavas known as Svayam Vyakta Ksetras, the other seven being Near the Nepalese village of Marpha / Marpa there is a farm managed by the Pasang Sherpa, producing a wide variety of fruits including Pears
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- Districts of Nepal at statoids. Mustang is from Tibetan Mun Tan ( Wylie smon-thang) which denotes fertile plain Nepal is divided into 14 administrative zones (अञ्चल "anchal" which are divided into 75 districts (जिल्ला "jilla" com