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Chokmagu

place in Mechi Zone, Nepal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 6, 2021
Entity authorityQ3413965 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chokmagu is a market center of Phidim Municipality in Panchthar District in the Province No. 1 in eastern Nepal. It was annexed to Phidim on 18 May 2014 to form the municipality. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5698 people living in 835 individual households.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chokmagu” as place in Mechi Zone, Nepal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Chokmagu, place and Mechi can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as place in Mechi Zone, Nepal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 6, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q3413965. Authority coordinates are 27.130, 87.740. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chokmagu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.