{"id":"gadhawa","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/gadhawa","language":"en","name":"Gadhawa","name_en":"Gadhawa","name_ne":"दढवा","description":"Typical village development committee in Rapti Zone, Nepal","headline":"Typical village development committee in Rapti Zone, Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Gadhawa (Gadawa) is a village in the Gadhawa Rural Municipality of Dang Deukhuri District in Lumbini Province, south-western Nepal.  It was, prior to September 2015, also a Village Development Committee in Dang Deukhuri District, Rapti Zone. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census the VDC had a population of 11,430 persons living in 2,176 households, up from the 2001 Nepal census of 7,877 persons living in 1,188 households.","summary_more":["It is surrounded by the former Gangapraspur VDC to the east, Koilabas VDC to the south, Bela VDC to the west and Chailahi VDC to the north. The North-South Damodar road runs through Gadhawa and communicates with the Indian border via Koilabas VDC and to the East-West highway (Mahendra highway) via Chailahi VDC. The majority of the population consists of Tharu, Khas Brahmin, and Yadav. There are a few Muslims. Most people are agriculturalists; however, a few are employed in small businesses."],"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/Q3410660#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 Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104014","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/lumbini-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3410660#P131"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadhawa","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%A2%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3410660"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Gadhawa located?","a":"Gadhawa is located in Dang 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":"Gadhawa Rural Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/gadhawa-rural-municipality","km":0.0},{"name":"Gangapraspur","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/gangapraspur","km":6.6},{"name":"Koilabas","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/koilabas","km":9.2},{"name":"Chailahi","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/chailahi","km":10.0},{"name":"Lamahi Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lamahi-municipality","km":10.4},{"name":"Sivalik Hills","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sivalik-hills","km":12.9}],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Gadhawa","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadhawa","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): दढवा","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%A2%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3410660","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3410660","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 Gadhawa, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Gadhawa\". DigiNepal. Last updated 4 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/gadhawa. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-04T06:41:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/gadhawa","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/gadhawa","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/gadhawa?lang=ne"}}