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Gorkha can mean:

  • Another name for Prithbhinarayan, a Nepali city
  • Gorkha District
    Gorkha District

    Gorkha District, a part of Gandaki Zone, is one of the seventy-five Districts of Nepal of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Gorkha, Nepal as its district headquarters, covers an area of 3,610km? and has a population of 288,134....
    , a district of Nepal
  • The name of those regiments of the modern Indian Army, successors of the Gurkhas of Britain's imperial Indian Army.
  • The name of the medieval state of Gorkha
  • Nepali official name as a state before 1930
  • Gorkha Beer
    Gorkha Beer

    Gorkha Beer is a brand of beer brewed in Nepal. * The correct spelling for the beer is 'Gorkha', as indicated on the label on the bottle. The brand originates from the Nepalese district of the same name....
    , a brand of beer brewed in Nepal
  • Gorkha Airlines
    Gorkha Airlines

    Gorkha Airlines is an airline based in Kathmandu, Nepal. It operates scheduled and charter flights to domestic destinations, as well as daily mountain flights in the Himalayas....
    , an Airline in Nepal
  • Gorkhaland
    Gorkhaland

    Gorkhaland is the name given to the area around Darjeeling and the Duars in north West Bengal in India. Residents of the area, mostly Nepali speaking Gurkhas have long sought a separate state for themselves to improve their socio-economic conditions and to preserve the identities of the non-Bengali majority in the area who form a minority in...
    , the name given to the area around Darjeeling and the Duars in north West Bengal in India
  • Gorkha Hill Council, an autonomous body that looks after the administration of the District of Darjeeling
  • Gorkha National Liberation Front
    Gorkha National Liberation Front

    Gorkha National Liberation Front is a political party in northern West Bengal, India, formed in 1980. It is led by Subash Gishing.During the 1980s the GNLF led an intensive and often violent campaign for the creation of a separate Gorkha state in the Nepali language-speaking areas in northern West Bengal....
    , a political party in North Bengal, India
  • Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
    Gorkha Janmukti Morcha

    Gorkha Janmukti Morcha is a political party fighting for the creation of a separate state of Gorkhaland combining the Darjeeling district and Dooars in India....
    , a political party in Darjeeling district and Dooars, India
  • Bharatiya Gorkhali Welfare Association
    Bharatiya Gorkhali Welfare Association

    Bharatiya Gorkhali Welfare Association is a non-political social organization established in 1981 in Bangalore, Karnataka. It has undertaken a lot of initiatives in serving the Gorkha community for the last 26 years....
    , a non-political social organization for the Gorkha.
  • , the free Gorkha encyclopedia that anyone can edit.


See also

  • Gurkha
    Gurkha

    Gurkha, also spelled as Gorkha, are people from Nepal and northern India who take their name from the eighth century Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath....
     - the people from Nepal, who take their name from the eighth century Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath, and the name of the regiments recruited from these districts, that were a part of Britain's Indian Army and which are now a part of today's British Army.