{"id":"palapu","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/palapu","language":"en","name":"Palapu","name_en":"Palapu","name_ne":"पलापू","description":"Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal","headline":"Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Palapu was a village development committee in Okhaldhunga District in the Sagarmatha Zone of mid-eastern Nepal. Now it belongs to Koshi province, okhaldhunga district, Champadevi rural municipality as per the federal governing system of Nepal. It has been divided into two wards 1 and 2. In contemporary time palapu VDC(Village Development Committee) had 9 wards.","summary_more":["At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 3830 living in 625 individual households.According to the census of 2078 BS It holds the population of 4608 people in which ward no 1 has population of 2163 people and ward no 2 has population of 2445 people  Which makes ward no 2 as a highest populated ward of Champadevi rural municipality. Palapu is the major habitat of Magar tribe. Except it there is Sunuwar, Newar, Kami, Damai, Bahun etc."],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"ward of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1530705"},{"text":"human settlement","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3415846#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Okhaldhunga District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29026","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/okhaldhunga-district"},{"text":"Koshi Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104008","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/koshi-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3415846#P131"}},{"key":"population","label":"Population","values":[{"text":"5,231 (2011)","as_of":"2011","value":5231.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3415846#P1082"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palapu","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%82","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3415846"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Palapu located?","a":"Palapu is located in Okhaldhunga District, Koshi Province, Nepal."},{"q":"What is the population of Palapu?","a":"The population of Palapu is 5,231 (as of 2011)."}],"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":"Kalikadevi","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kalikadevi","km":3.9},{"name":"Khang Sang","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/khang-sang","km":5.0},{"name":"Likhu Khola","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/likhu-khola","km":5.9},{"name":"Balakhu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/balakhu","km":6.3},{"name":"Singhadevi","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/singhadevi","km":7.0},{"name":"Himganga","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/himganga","km":7.4}],"image":null,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Palapu","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palapu","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): पलापू","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%82","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3415846","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3415846","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 Palapu, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0).","cite":"\"Palapu\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/palapu. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T10:00:46Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/palapu","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/palapu","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/palapu?lang=ne"}}