Rasuwa Fort
Rasuwa Fort or Rasuwa Gadhi is a historical fort ruin in the Rasuwa District of Nepal roughly at the border with Tibet, China. It is located along the Trishuli River 3 kilometres north of the Nepalese town of Timure in Langtang National Park, yet 25 km south of the nearest locality of China at Gyirong Town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Krish Dulal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: fort ruin in the Rasuwa District of Nepal
- Also known as: “Rasuwa Gadhi” and “Rasuwagadhi”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Timure and Thuman.
Timure
Suburb
Photo: Krish Dulal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Timure is a small town and headquarter of ward no. 2 of Gosaikund rural municipality. It is about 19 km north from Syaphru. Previously Timure was a village development committee in Rasuwa District in the Bagmati Zone of northern Nepal. Timure is situated 3 km south of Rasuwa Fort.
Thuman
Suburb
Thuman is a village development committee in Rasuwa District in the Bagmati Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 929 people living in 188 individual households. Thuman is situated 8 km southwest of Rasuwa Fort.
Rasuwa Fort
- Categories: fort and locality
- Location: Gosaikunda, Rasuwa, Bagmati Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.27778° or 28° 16′ 40″ northLongitude
85.37778° or 85° 22′ 40″ eastElevation
1,983 metres (6,506 feet)Open location code
7MW779HH+44OpenStreetMap ID
node 992955542OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Rasuwa Fort” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “拉素瓦堡”
- Chinese: “拉苏瓦加迪”
- Chinese: “拉苏瓦堡”
- Chinese: “拉蘇瓦堡”
- Japanese: “ラスワガディ”
- Maithili: “रसुवागढी”
- Nepali: “रसुवागढी”
- Russian: “Расува (форт)”
- Russian: “Расува”
- Spanish: “Fuerte Rasuwa”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rasuwa Fort”. Photo: Krish Dulal, CC BY-SA 3.0.