Rara
Rara is a village development committee in Mugu District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 930, living in 199 individual households. Rara Lake lies in the eastern part of the VDC.- Type: Locality
- Description: village development committee in Karnali Zone, Nepal
- Also known as: “Rāra” and “Rara, Nepal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rara Lake.
Rara Lake
Lake
Photo: Prajina Khatiwada, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rara Lake, also known as Mahendra Lake, is the largest fresh water lake in the Nepalese Himalayas. It is the main feature of Rara National Park, located in Jumla and Mugu Districts of Karnali Province. Rara National Park stretches over 106 km2.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gamgadhi.
Gamgadhi
Village
Photo: Raju Journalist, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gamgadhi is the headquarters of Mugu District in the Karnali Zone of northern Nepal. It lies in province 6 of the seven provinces of Nepal. Gamgadhi is situated 6 km east of Rara.
Rara
- Category: village development committee of Nepal
- Location: Soru, Mugu, Karnali Pradesh, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Polish—“Rara” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Rara”
- German: “Rara”
- Maithili: “रारा गाविस”
- Malay: “Rara, Nepal”
- Malay: “Rara”
- Nepali: “Rārā”
- Nepali: “रारा गाविस”
- Nepali: “रारा, मुगु”
- Polish: “Rara”
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