Key facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Province
- Lumbini Province
- Admin hq
- Sandhikharka
- Type
- Coordination committee
- Body
- DCC , Arghākhānchī
- Total
- 1,199 km (463 sq mi)
- Rank
- 077
- Density
- 164.8/km (426.9/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:45 ( NPT )
- Main language s
- Nepali
- Website
- daoarghakhanchi .moha .gov .np
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Nepal
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Lumbini Province
- Capital
- Sandhikharka
- Population
- 177086
- Area
- 1193
- Official website
- ddcarghakhanchi.gov.np
- Image
- अर्घाखाँची 02.JPG
- Households
- 48465
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- topic's main category
- Category:Arghakhanchi District
- Commons category
- Arghakhanchi District
- native label
- अर्घाखाँची जिल्ला
- male population
- 80672
- female population
- 96414
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Encyclopedic overview
Arghakhanchi (Nepali: अर्घाखाँची जिल्ला [ʌɾɡakʰãt͡si] ) is one of the districts of Lumbini Province in Nepal. The district headquarter is Sandhikharka. The district covers an area of 1,193 km (461 sq mi) and has a population (2011) of 197,632. Its neighboring districts are Palpa in the east, Gulmi in the north, Kapilvastu District in the south and Pyuthan in the west. The district also covers 4.18 km of road connecting Kapilvastu and Bhalubang, Lalmatiya, Dang with Rapti River as Mahendra Highway or Easy-West Highway.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arghakhanchi District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.