Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Limbu or Yakthung tribes and clans belong to the Kirati nation or to the Kirat confederation. They are indigenous to the hill and mountainous regions of east Nepal between the Arun and Mechi rivers to as far as Southern Tibet Bhutan and Sikkim.The name Limbu is an exonym of an uncertain origin. The word Limbu roughly translates as an archer or ‘the bearer of bows and arrows’. They call themselves Yakthumba/Yakthung (in Limbu language).
