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Gorkha

Gorkha is a town in the region of . It became a part of Nepal when King Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha unified the country 250 years ago.
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  • Type: district of Nepal with 271,000 residents
  • Description: district of Nepal
  • Also known as: “Gorkha District”

Gorkha

Latitude
28.29° or 28° 17′ 24″ north
Longitude
84.6898° or 84° 41′ 23″ east
Population
271,000
Open location code
7MW67MQQ+XW
Wiki­data ID
Q28476
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In Other Languages

From Awadhi to Western Panjabi—“Gorkha” goes by many names.
  • Awadhi: “गोरखा जिला”
  • Bavarian: “Gorkha”
  • Bengali: “গোর্খা জেলা”
  • Bhojpuri: “गोरखा जिला”
  • Bishnupriya: “গোর্খা”
  • Catalan: “districte de Gorkha”
  • Chinese: “Gorkha Koān”
  • Chinese: “廓尔喀县”
  • Chinese: “廓爾喀縣”
  • Danish: “Gorkha District”
  • Danish: “Gorkha distrikt”
  • Dotyali: “गोरखा जिल्ला”
  • Dutch: “Gorkha”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Gorkha”
  • Finnish: “Gorkhan piirikunta”
  • French: “district de Gorkha”
  • French: “District de Gorkha”
  • German: “Gorkha”
  • Gujarati: “ગોરખા જિલ્લો, નેપાળ”
  • Gujarati: “ગોરખા જિલ્લો”
  • Hindi: “गोरखा जिला”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Gorkha”
  • Japanese: “ゴルカ郡”
  • Korean: “고르카 군”
  • Maithili: “गोरखा जिला”
  • Maithili: “गोर्खा जिला”
  • Marathi: “गोरखा जिल्हा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gorkha Koān”
  • Nepali: “गोरखा जिल्ला”
  • Nepali: “गोरखा”
  • Nepali: “गोर्खा जिल्ला”
  • Newari: “गोरखा जिल्ला”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorkha distrikt”
  • Norwegian: “Gorkha”
  • Polish: “Dystrykt Gorkha”
  • Polish: “Gorkha”
  • Portuguese: “Distrito de Gorkha”
  • Portuguese: “Gorkha”
  • Russian: “Горкха”
  • Sanskrit: “गोरखामण्डलम्”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱳᱨᱠᱷᱟ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱳᱨᱠᱷᱟ”
  • Slovenian: “Gorka”
  • Spanish: “Gorkha”
  • Tamil: “கோர்க்கா மாவட்டம்”
  • Ukrainian: “Горкха (район)”
  • Ukrainian: “Горкха”
  • Urdu: “گورکھا ضلع”
  • Vietnamese: “Gorkha”
  • Vietnamese: “Huyện Gorkha”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع گورکھا”
  • “गोरखा जिला”

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