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In 2014, Phikkal VDC was merged with Kanyam and Panchakanya to form the new Suryodaya Municipality.","Fikkal has a weekly Haat on Thursdays where local vendors and farmers gather to trade their products."],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"ward of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1530705"},{"text":"town","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3957"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3429115#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Suryodaya Municipality (municipality of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16918408","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/suryodaya-municipality"},{"text":"Ilam District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29016","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/ilam-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/Q3429115#P131"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phikkal_Bazar","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3429115"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Phikkal Bazar located?","a":"Phikkal Bazar is located in Suryodaya Municipality, Ilam District, Koshi 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":"Suryodaya Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/suryodaya-municipality","km":0.6},{"name":"Kanyam","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kanyam","km":3.4},{"name":"Shree Antu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/shree-antu","km":4.8},{"name":"Gorkhe","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/gorkhe","km":6.2},{"name":"Naya Bazar","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/naya-bazar","km":6.9},{"name":"Maijogmai Rural Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/maijogmai-rural-municipality","km":6.9}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Fikkal.JPG/960px-Fikkal.JPG","width":640,"height":427,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Ganesh Paudel","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fikkal.JPG"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Phikkal Bazar","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phikkal_Bazar","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): फिक्कल","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3429115","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3429115","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Fikkal.JPG by Ganesh Paudel (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fikkal.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 Phikkal Bazar, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Fikkal.JPG — Ganesh Paudel, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Phikkal Bazar\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/phikkal-bazar. Retrieved 3 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T13:59:50Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/phikkal-bazar","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/phikkal-bazar","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/phikkal-bazar?lang=ne"}}