Where is Piskar located?

Piskar is located in Sindhupalchowk District, Bagmati Province, Nepal.

Piskar

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Village development committee in Bagmati Zone, Nepal

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Piskar is a village in Sindhupalchok District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. A modestly sized village with a recorded population of 2,308 in 2021, Piskar is a part of Nepal's hilly countryside and is located about 115 kilometres (71 mi) away from the national capital of Kathmandu. The village is particularly important in 20th-century Nepalese history for the 1984 Piskar massacre, and its role as a Maoist base during the Maoist insurgency and later civil war.

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Type: ward of Nepal, human settlement wd
Located in: Sindhupalchowk District (district of Nepal) › Bagmati Province (province of Nepal) wd
Coordinates: 27.7400° N, 85.9400° E wd