Surkhet District
（重定向自Surkhet）
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Surkhet District (Nepali:सुर्खेत जिल्ला, Surkhet Jillā Listen ) is one of Nepal's seventy-five districts of Nepal located about 600 kilometres (373 mi) west of the national capital Kathmandu. Surkhet is one of ten districts in Province No. 6. The district's area is 2,451 km². It had 288,527 population in 2001 and 350,804 in 2011. Birendranagar is the district headquarters, nominated for capital of the proposed Bheri-Karnali state of the new federal republic.