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Dhangadhi
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Also known as Dhangarhi, Dhangadhi Upmahanagarpalika

Dhangadhi () is a sub-metropolitan city and the district headquarters of Kailali District in Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. It shares a border with India in the south, Godawari and Gauriganga Municipality in the North, Kailari Rural Municipality in the east and Kanchanpur District in the west. Dhangadhi is a sub-metropolis divided into 19 wards. It has an area of 271.74 Square kilometer. It is one of the major cities of Far-west Province (Sudurpashchim) of Nepal along with Mahendranagar, Dadeldhura, and Patan. The city is connected with the Bhimdutta Highway, about 660 kilometers west of Kat

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Dhangadhi
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धनगढी
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Sub-Metropolitan City (उपमहानगरपालिका)
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Behda Baba Temple
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Sudurpashchim

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Dhangadhi () is a sub-metropolitan city and the district headquarters of Kailali District in Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. It shares a border with India in the south, Godawari and Gauriganga Municipality in the North, Kailari Rural Municipality in the east and Kanchanpur District in the west. Dhangadhi is a sub-metropolis divided into 19 wards. It has an area of 271.74 Square kilometer. It is one of the major cities of Far-west Province (Sudurpashchim) of Nepal along with Mahendranagar, Dadeldhura, and Patan. The city is connected with the Bhimdutta Highway, about 660 kilometers west of Kathmandu.

Dhangadhi was established in 1976 as a municipality. The population was 198,792 as per the 2021 Nepal census. It is the most densely populated city in the province. It became the first sub-metropolitan city in the far-west after it was transformed to a sub-metropolis from municipality status on 18 September 2015. This added village development committees Fulbari and Urma into Dhangadhi and later wards 9 and 11 of former Attariya Municipality were also merged.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dhangadhi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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