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Dhurkot Rural Municipality

rural Municipality in Lumbini, Nepal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ65410391 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dhurkot is a Rural municipality located within the Gulmi District of the Lumbini Province of Nepal.

The rural municipality spans 86.32 square kilometres (33.33 sq mi) of area, with a total population of 22,454 according to a 2011 Nepal census.

On March 10, 2017, the Government of Nepal restructured the local level bodies into 753 new local level structures.

The previous Nayagaun (some part excluded), Pipaldhara, Hadahade, Jaisithok, Bastu, Dhurkot Rajasthal and Wagla VDCs were merged to form Dhurkot Rural Municipality.

Dhurkot is divided into 7 wards, with Barbot declared the administrative center of the rural municipality.

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“Dhurkot Rural Municipality” enters the record as rural Municipality in Lumbini, Nepal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dhurkot, Rural and Municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dhurkot, Rural and Municipality.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q65410391. Authority coordinates are 28.100, 83.167. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dhurkot Rural Municipality” 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.