{"id":"sungdel","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sungdel","language":"en","name":"Sungdel","name_en":"Sungdel","name_ne":"सुङदेल","description":"Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal","headline":"Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Sungdel is a village and Village Development Committee in the Khotang District in the Sagarmatha Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,846 persons living in 585 individual households. It is at the northeast belt of the Khotang district. Currently, there is a high school, Shree surya Ma. Vi, and four primary schools. People run their own hydropower. The majority of people are Koyee Rai. It is the only place where Koyee people speak their mother language, Koyee. This language is also known as Sungdele Bhasa. Most people depend on farming. The highest hill in Khotang district, Loure, is situated in Sungdel.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"ward of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1530705"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414526#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Khotang District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28599","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/khotang-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/Q3414526#P131"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungdel","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%99%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414526"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Sungdel located?","a":"Sungdel is located in Khotang 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":"Rakha Dipsung","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/rakha-dipsung","km":3.2},{"name":"Sitalpati, Sindhuli","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sitalpati-sindhuli","km":4.5},{"name":"Rakha Bangdel","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/rakha-bangdel","km":6.9},{"name":"Khartamchha","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/khartamchha","km":7.1},{"name":"Baksila","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/baksila","km":8.1},{"name":"Baspani, Khotang District","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/baspani-khotang-district","km":8.7}],"image":{"url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Sungdel.JPG","width":640,"height":427,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Sumankoyee","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sungdel.JPG"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Sungdel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungdel","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): सुङदेल","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%99%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3414526","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3414526","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Sungdel.JPG by Sumankoyee (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sungdel.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 Sungdel, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Sungdel.JPG — Sumankoyee, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Sungdel\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/sungdel. Retrieved 3 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T07:01:58Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-03","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/sungdel","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/sungdel","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/sungdel?lang=ne"}}