Tribhuvannagar
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Tribhuvan Nagar, renamed as Ghorahi is a municipality of Dang Valley, Dang Deokhuri District
Dang Deokhuri District
Dang-Deukhuri, District is an Inner Terai district some 280 km west of Kathmandu in Rapti Zone of Nepal's Mid-Western Region. Dang-Deukhuri covers an area of 2,955 km² with population of 462,380...

 of Rapti Zone
Rapti Zone
Rapti Anchal in the Mid-Western Development Region of Nepal. It is named after the West Rapti River which drains Rolpa, Pyuthan and part of Dang district. The remainder of Dang and part of Salyan are drained by the Babai. The remainder of Salyan and all of Rukum are drained by the Bheri.The...

, southwest Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

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Tribhuvannagar can be reached by the road that goes 23 kilometers North from Lamahi, a small town on the Mahendra highway
Mahendra Highway
Mahendra Highway also called East West Highway runs across the Terai region of Nepal, from Kankarbhitta in the east to Mahendranagar in the west, cutting across the entire width of the country. It is the longest highway in Nepal.-Overview:...

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Roads connect Ghorahi to Rukum, Rolpa, Piuthan and Salyan districts. A new road links ghorahi to Birendranagar
Birendranagar
Birendranagar is a city in mid western Nepal, located in the Surkhet District of Bheri Zone. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 22,937 people residing in 4773 individual households....

, Surkhet. A branch road from Tulsipur
Tulsipur, Rapti
Tulsipur is a town and V.D.C. in Dang Deokhuri District in the Rapti Zone of south-western Nepal. It is also the district's main bazaar. The 1991 Nepal census counted 13,815 persons in 2,540 households. Dang Airport is about two km south of the town center...

 to the west crosses Dang valley to Mahendra highway from the west, allowing for easy contact to Nepalgunj
Nepalgunj
Nepalgunj , also spelled Nepalganj, is a municipality in Banke District, Nepal on the Terai plains near the southern border with Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh state of India. It is 16 km south of Kohalpur and the east-west Mahendra Highway....

 and Mahendranagar
Mahendranagar
Bhim Dutta, formerly Mahendranagar , is a city and municipality in far western Nepal, six kilometres from the border of India and the Mahakali River...

. There is a domestic airport
Tribhuvannagar Airport
Dang Airport , also known as Tulsipur Airport or Tribhuvannagar Airport, is an airport serving the Dang Deukhuri District in the Rapti Zone of the Mid-Western Region in Nepal...

, with the code DNG, 23 kilometre
Kilometre
The kilometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres and is therefore exactly equal to the distance travelled by light in free space in of a second...

s from town.


The population in 2010 was over 90000 in more than 30000 households.



Ghorahi is home to both Dang Multiple College and Nepal Sanskrit University
Nepal Sanskrit University
Nepal Sanskrit University established in December 1986, has its central office at Beljhundi in Dang district of Mid-Western Development Region, Nepal. The university offers Intermediate , Bachelor , Bachelor of Education, Masters and Doctoral courses in classical and modern subjects...

. A sub-regional hospital and an eye hospital, both run by the government.
Many other private schools colleges and hospitals are serving the people.

Places to Visit in and around Ghorahi

Ambikeshwori temple

Ratan-nath Mandir House of Tulsipur
House of Tulsipur
The Royal House of Tulsipur or Tulsipur-Dang was one of 22 principalities in the Baise Rajya confederation of the western Rapti region before the unification of Nepal, c. 1760. The Rajas of Tulsipur-Dang belonged to the Chauhan clan...



Buddha bihar

Pandeveshwor temple
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