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National Highway 23 (Nepal)

national highway of Nepal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ126887822 ↗
Source-derived summary

NH23 is an interprovincial national highway between Bagmati Province and Koshi Province of Nepal. The total length of the highway is 291 kilometres (181 mi). The western section (136 kilometres (85 mi) in Bagmati Province) is completed and the eastern section (155 kilometres (96 mi)) is planned.

Khadichaur-Mudhe-Charikot, the 55-kilometre road section, is completed. The Charikot-Jiri section is also completed. According to the Strategic Road Network (SSRN) of DoR, the Jiri-Tamakoshi (37.4 km) section is also completed with black topped road.

The eastern section of NH-23 (Tamakoshi to Diktel via Pekarnas, Salleri) is not yet completed, and is planned to be constructed in the near future.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “National Highway 23 (Nepal)” as national highway of Nepal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 106-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where National, Highway and Nepal can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as national highway of Nepal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q126887822. Authority coordinates are 27.684, 85.925. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “National Highway 23 (Nepal)” 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.