Dolakha District
Sign in to saveAlso known as Dolkha District, Dholkha District, Dholakha District, Dolakha
district of Nepal
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 282 inbound references to Dolakha District, and connects out to Bhimeshwar, Newar and district of Nepal.
The entry is geolocated on the map in adm2nd.
It sits within the topics Districts of Bagmati Province, Districts of Nepal established in 1962 and Dolakha District.
Vinony links it to 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Province
- Bagmati Province
- Admin hq
- Charikot ( Bhimeshwar and namdu
- Type
- Coordination committee
- Body
- DCC , Dolakha
- Total
- 2,191 km (846 sq mi)
- Density
- 85.15/km (220.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:45 ( NPT )
- Main language s
- Dolkhali Nepal Bhasa
- Website
- www .ddcdolakha .gov .np
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Nepal
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Bagmati Province
- Population
- 172767
- Area
- 2191
- Official website
- ddcdolakha.gov.np
- Image
- Tashinam - panoramio.jpg
- Households
- 49538
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- Commons category
- Dolakha District
- topic's main category
- Category:Dolakha District
- male population
- 83720
- female population
- 89047
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Encyclopedic overview
Dolakha, often known as Dolkha or Dholkha (Nepal Bhasa:दोलखा जिल्ला)Listen), a part of Bagmati Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Charikot as its district headquarters, covers an area of 2,191 km (846 sq mi) and had a population of 204,229 in 2001 and 186,557 in 2011. The Dolkha postal code begins from 45500 and the main headquarters is in Dolkha. The administrative center of this district consists of 11 post offices. It is a district with a strong religious affiliation and is popularly known amongst most Nepalese for the temple of Dolakha Bhimeshawor.
The name Dolkha arose from Newar Community. In the classical Nepal Bhasa language "Dol" or "Dwāl" means Thousand, and "Khā" means houses which means "The place that has a thousand houses"..
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dolakha District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.