{"id":"meghauli","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/meghauli","language":"en","name":"Meghauli","name_en":"Meghauli","name_ne":"मेघौली","description":"Place in Province No. 3, Nepal","headline":"Place in Province No. 3, Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Meghauli (Nepali : मेघौली) is a small city and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Bharatpur Metropolitan City in Bagmati Province of central Nepal.","summary_more":["In December 2014, Meghauli among neighboring other Village Development Committees was merged to form Narayani Municipality. In 2016 Narayani Municipality was itself merged into Bharatpur  creating the metropolitan city of Bharatpur. The former Meghauli V.D.C. looks after civic affairs in the town. The municipal area is divided into two wards of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Ward No. 27 & 28.","At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 12,281 people living in 2027 individual households.","Meghauli village touches over 25 km of the borders of the park and is situated on the banks of the Rapti and Narayani River. Situated at 172 km from Kathmandu, Meghauli is in the western part of Chitwan district. Meghauli is one of the richest villages in Chitwan in terms of wildlife, different cultures and sports is located in the adjacent of Chitwan National Park."],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"protected area","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q473972"},{"text":"ward of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1530705"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3427978#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/Q3427978#P131"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghauli","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%98%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3427978"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Meghauli located?","a":"Meghauli 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":"Meghauli Airport","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/meghauli-airport","km":1.9},{"name":"Dhyaurali","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dhyaurali","km":4.1},{"name":"Dibyanagar","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dibyanagar","km":6.0},{"name":"Sukranagar","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sukranagar","km":6.3},{"name":"Kawaswati","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kawaswati","km":8.6},{"name":"Pithauli","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/pithauli","km":9.2}],"image":{"url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Rhinos_leofleck.jpg","width":640,"height":433,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Leofleck at English Wikipedia","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhinos_leofleck.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Meghauli","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghauli","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): मेघौली","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%98%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3427978","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3427978","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Rhinos leofleck.jpg by Leofleck at English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhinos_leofleck.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 Meghauli, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Rhinos leofleck.jpg — Leofleck at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Meghauli\". DigiNepal. Last updated 3 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/meghauli. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-03T06:43:32Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/meghauli","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/meghauli","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/meghauli?lang=ne"}}