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This is also the sacred place for Hindus as the Saga Valmiki lived here thousands years ago.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"human settlement","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972"},{"text":"municipality of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3492039"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19689728#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Chitwan District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28583","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/chitwan-district"},{"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/Q19689728#P131"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"maddimun.gov.np/en","url":"http://www.maddimun.gov.np/en"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19689728#P856"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi,_Chitwan","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80_%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/Q19689728","http://www.maddimun.gov.np/en"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Madi, Chitwan located?","a":"Madi, Chitwan is located in Chitwan 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":"Madi Kalyanpur","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/madi-kalyanpur","km":3.2},{"name":"Bagauda, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bagauda-nepal","km":6.3},{"name":"Parsa National Park","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/parsa-national-park","km":6.3},{"name":"Ayodhyapuri","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/ayodhyapuri","km":6.3},{"name":"Chitwan National Park","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/chitwan-national-park","km":9.6},{"name":"Gardi, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/gardi-nepal","km":9.7}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Basantapur_Bazaar_Chowk.JPG/960px-Basantapur_Bazaar_Chowk.JPG","width":640,"height":427,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Raajiv Kilana Shrestha","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basantapur_Bazaar_Chowk.JPG"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Madi, Chitwan","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madi,_Chitwan","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): माडी नगरपालिका","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80_%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 Q19689728","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19689728","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Basantapur Bazaar Chowk.JPG by Raajiv Kilana Shrestha (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basantapur_Bazaar_Chowk.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 Madi, Chitwan, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Basantapur Bazaar Chowk.JPG — Raajiv Kilana Shrestha, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Madi, Chitwan\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/madi-chitwan. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T07:01:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/madi-chitwan","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/madi-chitwan","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/madi-chitwan?lang=ne"}}