{"id":"dalchoki","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dalchoki","language":"en","name":"Dalchoki","name_en":"Dalchoki","name_ne":"दल्चोकी","description":"Village of Konjyosom Rural Municipality in Province No. 3, Nepal","headline":"Village of Konjyosom Rural Municipality in Province No. 3, Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Dalchoki (Nepali: दलचोकी) is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Konjyosom Rural Municipality in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. It is situated on the southern part of Lalitpur district, nearly 23 Kilometers from Patan, its district headquarters. This hilly region ranges from 1200 to 2300 meters from the sea level. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1,066 in 193 individual households.","summary_more":["There have been many myths related to the naming of Dalchoki. Some believe there were 3 goddesses Phulchoki, Dalchoki and Sanchoki respectively and the name Dalchoki was given following the residing of goddess Dalchoki in this place. Dalchoki has a temple dedicated to Dalchoki devi.","According to another myth, Dalchoki was said to be a point from where Prithivi Narayan Shah attacked Kathmandu. The troop (troop is called Dal in Nepali) resided here and had a check-post (Check-post is called Chowki) due to which the current name Dalchoki emerged. However there is not enough evidence to support this."],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"ward of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1530705"},{"text":"human settlement","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3413747#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Lalitpur District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1108338","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/lalitpur-district-nepal"},{"text":"Bagmati Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104015","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/bagmati-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3413747#P131"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalchoki","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3413747"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Dalchoki located?","a":"Dalchoki is located in Lalitpur District, Bagmati 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":"Chaughare","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/chaughare","km":2.0},{"name":"Nallu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/nallu","km":2.4},{"name":"Bhattedanda","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bhattedanda","km":3.7},{"name":"Bukhel","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bukhel","km":4.5},{"name":"Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/pakistan-international-airlines-flight-268","km":4.5},{"name":"Lele, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lele-nepal","km":4.6}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Mustard_Fields_of_Dalchoki.JPG/500px-Mustard_Fields_of_Dalchoki.JPG","width":640,"height":479,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Sushant Rijal","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mustard_Fields_of_Dalchoki.JPG"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Dalchoki","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalchoki","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): दल्चोकी","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3413747","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3413747","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Mustard Fields of Dalchoki.JPG by Sushant Rijal (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mustard_Fields_of_Dalchoki.JPG","license":null}],"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 Dalchoki, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Mustard Fields of Dalchoki.JPG — Sushant Rijal, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Dalchoki\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/dalchoki. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T10:00:46Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/dalchoki","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/dalchoki","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/dalchoki?lang=ne"}}