Where is Chhintang located?

Chhintang is located in Dhankuta District, Koshi Province, Nepal.

Chhintang

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Village development committee in Dhankuta District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal

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Chhintang is a village in Shahidbhumi Rural Municipality in the Dhankuta District of Province No. 1 in eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 8071 people living in 1374 individual households. The Chintang language is primarily spoken in Chhintang.

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Type: human settlement, ward of Nepal wd
Located in: Dhankuta District (district of Nepal) › Koshi Province (province of Nepal) wd
Coordinates: 26.9400° N, 87.2000° E wd

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The village was the site of the Chhintang massacre. On January 12, 2018, the Government of Nepal officially declared the 16 people killed in the November 13, 1979 massacre as national martyrs.