Simikot
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Simikot
- Settlement.native_name
- सिमिकोट
- Settlement.settlement_type
- District Headquarters
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Simikot N.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nepal
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Nepal
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Karnali
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Humla
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 785.89
- Settlement.area_rank
- 18th largest RM (in country)6th largest (in province)
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
सिमकोट गाउँपालिका | कर्णली प्रदेश,नेपाल सरकार "उच्च हिमाली, विविधतायुक्त, व्यापारिक र पर्यटकिय शहर : समृद्ध हाम्रो सिमकोट नगर"
simkotmun.gov.np →Link to the official site · 39,154 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 4341
- Elevation
- 2910
- Official website
- simkotmun.gov.np
- Image
- Simikot.jpg
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Simikot is the administrative headquarters of Humla District of Karnali Zone in the mountain region of northwestern Nepal.
== Significance == Lying at an altitude of just over 2,900m on a gentle slope high above the Humla Karnali River, Simikot lies on an ancient trade-cum-pilgrimage route to Mount Kailash. Mount Kailash is located in the Purang County of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, China, which borders Humla district of Nepal to the north. In the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, the popular Tatopani-Zhangmu route for the pilgrimage to Mount Kailash was badly damaged. In the aftermath of this earthquake the traffic for the annual pilgrimage to Mount Kailash shifted to Humla. Pilgrims would fly from Kathmandu to Nepalgunj, and then from Nepalgunj to Simikot. At Simikot, they would either spend a night in this village's few hotels, or would straightaway be taken in helicopter flights to Hilsa, from where they would cross into Tibet (China).
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