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Sitapaila, an adjacent village, is named after Sita, Rama's wife, who is said to have visited the settlement."],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"human settlement","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6974056#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Kathmandu District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q797472","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu-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/Q6974056#P131"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramkot,_Nepal","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9F","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6974056"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Ramkot, Nepal located?","a":"Ramkot, Nepal is located in Kathmandu 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":"Bhimdhunga","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bhimdhunga","km":1.8},{"name":"Nagarjun Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/nagarjun-municipality","km":1.9},{"name":"Ichangu Narayan","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/ichangu-narayan","km":2.5},{"name":"Naikap Purano Bhanjyang","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/naikap-purano-bhanjyang","km":2.5},{"name":"Mahadevsthan, Kathmandu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mahadevsthan-kathmandu","km":2.5},{"name":"Sitapaila","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sitapaila","km":2.6}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Ramkot.jpg/960px-Ramkot.jpg","width":640,"height":480,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Eukesh (talk)","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramkot.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Ramkot, Nepal","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramkot,_Nepal","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): रामकोट","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9F","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q6974056","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6974056","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Ramkot.jpg by Eukesh (talk) (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramkot.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 Ramkot, Nepal, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Ramkot.jpg — Eukesh (talk), Public domain.","cite":"\"Ramkot, Nepal\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/ramkot-nepal. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T12:00:53Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/ramkot-nepal","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/ramkot-nepal","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/ramkot-nepal?lang=ne"}}