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At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 11,515 people living in 2733 individual households. Now, it has a population of 35,396 people living in 8,134 individual households after merging Gadakot, Gejha, Khaliban and Darchha VDCs."],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"municipality of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3492039","start":"2014"},{"text":"ward of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1530705"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7290057#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Palpa District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28440","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/palpa-district"},{"text":"Lumbini Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104014","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/lumbini-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7290057#P131"}},{"key":"area","label":"Area","values":[{"text":"123.5 km²","value":123.5}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7290057#P2046"}},{"key":"elevation","label":"Elevation","values":[{"text":"1,100 m","value":1100.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7290057#P2044"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampur,_Palpa","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7290057"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Rampur, Palpa located?","a":"Rampur, Palpa is located in Palpa District, Lumbini Province, Nepal."},{"q":"What is the elevation of Rampur, Palpa?","a":"Rampur, Palpa is at an elevation of 1,100 m above sea level."}],"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":"Siluwa","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/siluwa","km":3.7},{"name":"Khaliban","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/khaliban","km":3.8},{"name":"Chapakot Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/chapakot-municipality","km":4.9},{"name":"Darchha","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/darchha","km":5.4},{"name":"Ratnapur, Syangja","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/ratnapur-syangja","km":5.8},{"name":"Sankhar","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sankhar","km":7.5}],"image":{"url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/RampurMunicipality.jpg","width":640,"height":480,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Pitambarbhattarai","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RampurMunicipality.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Rampur, Palpa","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampur,_Palpa","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): रामपुर, पाल्पा","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q7290057","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7290057","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: RampurMunicipality.jpg by Pitambarbhattarai (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RampurMunicipality.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 Rampur, Palpa, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: RampurMunicipality.jpg — Pitambarbhattarai, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Rampur, Palpa\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/rampur-palpa. Retrieved 3 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T09:28:17Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/rampur-palpa","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/rampur-palpa","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/rampur-palpa?lang=ne"}}