{"id":"gadhawa-rural-municipality","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/gadhawa-rural-municipality","language":"en","name":"Gadhawa Rural Municipality","name_en":"Gadhawa Rural Municipality","name_ne":"गढवा गाउँपालिका","description":"Rural municipality in Dang District, Nepal","headline":"Rural municipality in Dang District, Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Gadhawa Rural Municipality is located in Deukhuri valley of Dang district of Lumbini Province, Nepal. This rural municipality was declared on Falgun 12, 2073 Vikram Samvat. It lies from 195 meter to 885 meter above sea level.\nThe former Gadhawa VDC office was the administrative center of Gadhawa Rural Municipality for 4 years of its inception and then the office of the executive was moved to a new building. According to the preliminary report of population census 2078, Gadhawa Rural Municipality has 46275 population where male and female comprises 22650 (48.95%) and 23625 (51.05%) population respectively. During local level restructuring, this rural municipality was formed by annexing former four VDCs named Gobardiya, Gangapraspur, Gadhawa and Koilabas. This rural municipality has a 358.57 square km area and is divided into 8 wards. It is surrounded by Arghakhanchi and Kapilvastu districts from the east, Rajapur Rural Municipality from the west, Lamahi Municipality and Rapti Rural Municipality in the north, and India in the south direction.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"rural municipality of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29467088","start":"2017"},{"text":"human settlement","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56276418#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Dang District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28066","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/dang-district-nepal"},{"text":"Lumbini Province (province of 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This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Gadhawa Rural Municipality Office.png — Sharad87, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Gadhawa Rural Municipality\". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/gadhawa-rural-municipality. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-01T06:59:19Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/gadhawa-rural-municipality","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/gadhawa-rural-municipality","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/gadhawa-rural-municipality?lang=ne"}}