{"id":"argha","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/argha","language":"en","name":"Argha","name_en":"Argha","name_ne":"अर्घा","description":"Place in Lumbini Zone, Nepal","headline":"Place in Lumbini Zone, Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Argha is a Market Center in Sandhikharka Municipality of Arghakhanchi District in Lumbini Province of southern Nepal. Its fort (kot) was the centre of a former Chaubisi kingdom, the Kingdom of Argha, which was annexed to Nepal in 1786. The former village development committee (VDC) was converted into a municipality on 18 May 2014 by merging the existing Sandhikharka, Wangla, Narapani, Khanchikot, Keemadada, Argha and Dibharna VDCs. At the 1991 Nepal census, the town had a population of 8,248 living in 1,712 houses. At the 2001 Nepal census, the population was 5,947, of which 60% was literate.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"ward of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1530705"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4789537#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Arghakhanchi District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28432","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/arghakhanchi-district"},{"text":"Lumbini Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104014","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/lumbini-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4789537#P131"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argha","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%98%E0%A4%BE","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4789537"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Argha located?","a":"Argha is located in Arghakhanchi District, Lumbini Province, Nepal."}],"related":[{"name":"Mount Everest","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mount-everest"},{"name":"Himalayas","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/himalayas"},{"name":"Kathmandu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"},{"name":"Kangchenjunga","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kangchenjunga"},{"name":"Annapurna (mountain range)","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/annapurna-mountain-range"},{"name":"Dhaulagiri","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dhaulagiri"},{"name":"Makalu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/makalu"},{"name":"Lhotse","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lhotse"},{"name":"Cho Oyu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/cho-oyu"},{"name":"Manaslu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/manaslu"},{"name":"Pokhara","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/pokhara"},{"name":"Lumbini","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lumbini"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[{"name":"Bangi, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bangi-nepal","km":3.5},{"name":"Khan, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/khan-nepal","km":3.7},{"name":"Kimadanda","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kimadanda","km":3.7},{"name":"Dibharna","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dibharna","km":4.1},{"name":"Khandaha","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/khandaha","km":4.6},{"name":"Sandhikharka","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sandhikharka","km":5.6}],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Argha","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argha","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): अर्घा","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%98%E0%A4%BE","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q4789537","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4789537","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Argha, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Argha\". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/argha. Retrieved 3 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-01T06:59:19Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/argha","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/argha","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/argha?lang=ne"}}