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A bridge joins Kushma with Gyadichour located on the other side of the deep Modi river canyon."],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"municipality of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3492039"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3429735#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Parbat District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28421","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/parbat-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/Q3429735#P131"}},{"key":"established","label":"Established","values":[{"text":"May 2014","date":"2014-05"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3429735#P571"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"kushmamun.gov.np","url":"http://kushmamun.gov.np"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3429735#P856"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushma","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3429735","http://kushmamun.gov.np"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Kushma located?","a":"Kushma is located in Parbat 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":"Narayansthan","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/narayansthan","km":1.3},{"name":"Bijaya Kharka","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bijaya-kharka","km":1.3},{"name":"Baglung Airport","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/baglung-airport","km":1.4},{"name":"Shivalaya, Parbat","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/shivalaya-parbat","km":1.7},{"name":"Katuwa Chaupari","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/katuwa-chaupari","km":2.0},{"name":"Bitalawa Pipaltari","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bitalawa-pipaltari","km":3.1}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Kali_Gandaki_River_near_Kushma_Nepal.jpg/3840px-Kali_Gandaki_River_near_Kushma_Nepal.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","width":640,"height":480,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Saddam19","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kali_Gandaki_River_near_Kushma_Nepal.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Kushma","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushma","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): कुश्मा","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3429735","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3429735","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Kali Gandaki River near Kushma Nepal.jpg by Saddam19 (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kali_Gandaki_River_near_Kushma_Nepal.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 Kushma, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Kali Gandaki River near Kushma Nepal.jpg — Saddam19, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Kushma\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/kushma. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:00:45Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/kushma","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/kushma","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/kushma?lang=ne"}}