Gorkha Municipality
Gorkha is a municipality in Gorkha District in Gandaki Province of Nepal created in 1996. It was initially named "Prithvinarayan" after King Prithvi Narayan Shah, who was born in Gorkha and united and founded modern Nepal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City
- Description: municipality in Gorkha District, Nepal
- Also known as: “Gorakha”, “Gorkha”, “Gorkhā”, “Gorkha Nagarpalika”, “Prithbinarayan”, “Prithivi Narayan Municipality”, and “Prithivi Narayan Nagarpalika”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Phinam and Bunkot.
Phinam
Hamlet
Phinam was a village development committee in Gorkha District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. It was merged into Gorkha Municipality in 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 2,993 and had 580 houses in the town.
Bunkot
Hamlet
Bungkot, formerly known as Bungkot VDC, currently falls under Shahid Lakhan Rural Municipality ward 7 and ward 8 as Nepal entered in Federalism since 2015.
Bakrang
Village
Bakrang is a village development committee in Gorkha District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,571 and had 671 houses in the town. Bakrang is situated 8 km southwest of Gorkha Municipality.
Gorkha Municipality
- Categories: municipality of Nepal and locality
- Location: Gorkha, Gandaki Pradesh, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.99696° or 27° 59′ 49″ northLongitude
84.62594° or 84° 37′ 33″ eastElevation
1,152 metres (3,780 feet)IATA airport code
GKHUnited Nations Location Code
NP GKHOpen location code
7MV6XJWG+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 4896508190OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Gorkha Municipality” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Gorkha”
- Bavarian: “Gorkha”
- Catalan: “Gorkha”
- Chinese: “廓爾喀 (甘達基專區)”
- Chinese: “廓爾喀”
- Dutch: “Gorkha”
- Finnish: “Gorkha”
- French: “Gorkha”
- German: “Gorkha”
- Hindi: “पृथ्वीनारायण”
- Italian: “Gorkha (città)”
- Italian: “Gorkha”
- Japanese: “プリトビナラヤン”
- Kurdish: “Gorkha Municipality”
- Malay: “Prithbinarayan”
- Nepali: “गोरखा नगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “पृथ्वीनारायण नगरपालिका”
- Newari: “पृथ्वीनारायण नगरपालिका”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorkha”
- Norwegian: “Gorkha”
- Persian: “گورکا”
- Polish: “Gorkha”
- Polish: “Prithivinagar”
- Portuguese: “Gorkha”
- Swedish: “Gurkha”
- Urdu: “پرتھوی ناراین”
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