{"id":"bunkot","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bunkot","language":"en","name":"Bunkot","name_en":"Bunkot","name_ne":"बुङकोत","description":"Village development committee in Gandaki Zone, Nepal","headline":"Village development committee in Gandaki Zone, Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Bungkot, formerly known as Bungkot VDC, currently falls under Shahid Lakhan (Lakhan Thapa Magar \"First Martyr of Nepal\") Rural Municipality ward 7 and ward 8 as Nepal entered in Federalism since 2015. Former Bungkot VDC that was structured with 9 wards as their administrative division is now merged to two wards of Shahid Lakhan Rural Municipality. Previous 1,2,3,4 wards of Bungkot VDC now falls in ward 7 of Shahid Lakhan Rural Municipality, whose administrative center is Khabdi-bhanjyang. Whereas, previous 5,6,7,8,9 wards now falls in ward 8 of the Rural Municipality, whose administrative center is Mailung.","summary_more":["Ward 7 and Ward 8 of Shahid Lakhan Rural Municipality is the most populated ward of the Rural Municipality. There is one hospital, 2 higher secondary school, 1 lower secondary, 6 primary level school and 1 privately owned boarding school in ward 7 and ward 8.","Mr. Sharan Shrestha and Mr. Kashi Nath Amgain is the Ward Chairperson of ward 7 and 8 respectively.","Bungkot is home to different caste, religion and ethnic community. Over 80% of the people are Hindus. The first martyr of Nepal Lakhan Thapa was born in Kahulebhangar, which lies in ward 7 of the Rural Municipality. Almost 80% of the people are literate and follow different occupations. A large number of youths are on Foreign Employment to Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Dubai, Qatar, South Korea, while a significant number of youths are serving in Army and Police forces. While, farming is the national tradition of Nepali people."],"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/Q3414319#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Gorkha District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28476","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/gorkha-district"},{"text":"Gandaki Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104016","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/gandaki-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414319#P131"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkot","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%99%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9F","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414319"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Bunkot located?","a":"Bunkot is located in Gorkha District, Gandaki 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":"Asrang","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/asrang","km":3.9},{"name":"Namjung","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/namjung","km":3.9},{"name":"Ghairung","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/ghairung","km":4.9},{"name":"Phinam","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/phinam","km":5.2},{"name":"Borlang","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/borlang","km":6.3},{"name":"Bolde Fediche","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bolde-fediche","km":6.3}],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Bunkot","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkot","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): बुङकोत","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%99%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9F","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3414319","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414319","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 Bunkot, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Bunkot\". DigiNepal. Last updated 3 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/bunkot. Retrieved 3 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-03T06:43:32Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/bunkot","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/bunkot","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/bunkot?lang=ne"}}