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The name Chitwan is a composite of the Sanskrit words चित्त, transliterated "citta" meaning heart, and वन, transliterated "vana" meaning jungle or forest. [5] [6] Thus, the meaning of Chitwan is Heart of the Jungle. Chitwan was a dense forest ruled by the Tharu God-King Chitrasen Baba, thought to an incarnation of Vishnu.
Chitwan National Park is the first national park of Nepal. It was established in 1973 as the Royal Chitwan National Park and was granted the status of a World Heritage Site in 1984. [ 1 ] It covers an area of 952.63 km 2 (367.81 sq mi) in the subtropical Inner Terai lowlands of south-central Nepal in Nawalpur , Chitwan , Makwanpur and Parsa ...
Ratnanagar is a municipality in Chitwan District of Bagmati Province in Nepal. It is the second biggest municipality after Bharatpur Metropolitan City that was formed in 1997 through the merger of the former Village Development Committees Old-Ratnanagar and Panchakanya. [2] It is adjacent to Chitwan National Park, and serves as a gateway to the ...
Kalika is a municipality in Chitwan District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal. This municipality was established in 2015 AD by merging the existing Jutpani, Padampur, Shaktikhor and Siddhi VDCs. [1] [2]
Upardanggadhi. Chitwan Valley was an independent kingdom before Nepal was unified in the late 18th century, its historic capital having been Upardanggadhi.Until the beginning of the 20th century, the main part of the Chitwan Valley was under forest and sparsely populated by ethnic groups, such as the Tharu, Danuwar, Darai and Majhi people who had acquired some resistance against the infectious ...
Bharatpur (/ b ə ˈ r ɑː t p ər /, Nepali: भरतपुर, pronounced [ˈbʱʌɾʌt̪pur] ⓘ) is a city in south central Nepal.It is the third most populous city of Nepal after Kathmandu and Pokhara with 369,377 inhabitants in 2021. [2]
Gunjanagar is a town in Bharatpur, Chitwan in Bagmati Province of southern Nepal.The former Gunjanagar VDC and Saradanagar VDC were merged on 18 May 2014 to form new Chitrawan Municipality, [1] [2] which later was merged with Bharatpur.
This is a list of monuments in Chitwan District, Nepal as officially recognized by and available through the website of the Department of Archaeology, ...