{"id":"thawang","type":"place","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/thawang","language":"en","name":"Thawang","name_en":"Thawang","name_ne":"थवाङ","description":"Village development committee in Rapti Zone, Nepal","headline":"Village development committee in Rapti Zone, Nepal","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Thawang is a village development committee in Rolpa District in the Lumbini Province of western Nepal. At the time of the 2021 Nepal census it had a population of 4522 people living in 853 individual households. It is now in Thabang Rural Municipality Ward No. 2 and 3. This is a beautiful settlement of Nepal. This settlement has a majority of Magar and is the main settlement area of Kham speakers. From this place, you can go to Jaljala, a famous and beautiful place in Nepal. It was one of the first villages to rise up against the monarchy in the Nepalese Civil War and subsequently the site of a massacre perpetrated by the Royal Nepali Army in 2002.","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/Q3416515#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Rolpa District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28597","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/rolpa-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/Q3416515#P131"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawang","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%99","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3416515"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Thawang located?","a":"Thawang is located in Rolpa District, Lumbini 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":"Mirul","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mirul","km":5.4},{"name":"Uwa, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/uwa-nepal","km":8.5},{"name":"Mahat, Eastern Rukum","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mahat-eastern-rukum","km":8.8},{"name":"Kankri","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kankri","km":8.8},{"name":"Jelbang","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/jelbang","km":9.1},{"name":"Morawang","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/morawang","km":11.5}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Thabang%2C_magar_village.jpg/3840px-Thabang%2C_magar_village.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","width":640,"height":480,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Vishal Acharya","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thabang,_magar_village.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Thawang","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawang","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): थवाङ","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%99","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3416515","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3416515","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Thabang, magar village.jpg by Vishal Acharya (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thabang,_magar_village.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 Thawang, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Thabang, magar village.jpg — Vishal Acharya, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Thawang\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/thawang. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-02T06:46:37Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/thawang","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/thawang","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/thawang?lang=ne"}}