Rasuwa District, a part of Bagmati Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. Bagmati Zone is a zone of Nepal which is named after the river Bagmati. 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 Dhunche as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,544 km² and has a population (2001) of 44,731. Dhunche is the capital of Rasuwa District in Bagmati Zone, Nepal. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.