Gadhawa (Gadawa) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the

Gadhawa Rural Municipality Gadhawa Rural Municipality (Nepali: गढवा गाउँपालिका sometimes गडवा गाउँपालिका) is located in Deukhuri valley of Dang Deukhuri District, Dang district of Lumbini Province, Nepal. This rural ...

Dang Deukhuri District Dang District (, ) is a district of Lumbini Province located in the Inner Terai Rapti Zone of midwestern Nepal. Dang Valley is the first largest valley of Asia and World's second largest valley surrounded by Sivalik Hills and the Mahabharata ...

Lumbini Province Lumbini Province () is a Provinces of Nepal, province in western Nepal. The country's Provinces of Nepal, third largest province in terms of area as well as List of Nepalese provinces by population, population, Lumbini is home to the World Herita ...

, south-western

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

. It was, prior to September 2015, also a Village Development Committee in

Rapti Zone Rapti Zone ( ) was one of the fourteen List of zones of Nepal, zones, located in the Mid-Western Development Region, Nepal, Mid-Western Development Region of Nepal. It was named after the West Rapti River which drains Rolpa District, Rolpa, Pyut ...

. At the time of the

2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working in cooperation with the 58 municipalities and the 3,915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the m ...

the VDC had a population of 11,430 persons living in 2,176 households, up from the

2001 Nepal census The 2001 Nepal census () was conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics.National Report 2001 -> Introduction Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics According to the census, the population of Nepal in 2001 was 23,151,423. Working with Nepal's ...

of 7,877 persons living in 1,188 households.Census figures for 1991 It is surrounded by the former Gangapraspur VDC to the east,

Koilabas Koilabas is a bazaar town situated in Gadhawa Rural Municipality in Dang Deokhuri District in Lumbini Province of south-western Nepal. The town is situated on the southern edge of the Dudhwa Range of the Siwaliks, at Nepal's border with Uttar Pr ...

VDC to the south,

Bela Bela may refer to: Places Asia *Bela Pratapgarh, a town in Pratapgarh District, Uttar Pradesh, India *Bela, a small village near Bhandara, Maharashtra, India *Bela, another name for the biblical city Zoara * Bela, Dang, in Nepal *Bela, Janakpur, ...

VDC to the west and Chailahi VDC to the north. The North-South Damodar road runs through Gadhawa and communicates with the Indian border via Koilabas VDC and to the East-West highway (Mahendra highway) via Chailahi VDC. The majority of the population consists of Tharu,

Khas Brahmin Bahun (), also known as Hill Brahmins, are a Brahmin varna among the Khas of Nepal. They are a sub-caste of the Kanyakubja Brahmin while their origins are from Kannauj and the Himalayan belt of South Asia. According to the 2011 Nepal census, ...

, and

Yadav Yadavs are a grouping of non-elite, peasant-pastoral Quote: "The Yadavs were traditionally a low-to-middle-ranking cluster of pastoral-peasant castes that have become a significant political force in Uttar Pradesh (and other northern states l ...

. There are a few

Muslim Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

s. Most people are agriculturalists; however, a few are employed in small businesses.

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External links

* Map of roads in Dang District. * Map of former VDCs in Dang District.
UN map of the municipalities of Dang Deukhuri District
Populated places in Dang District, Nepal {{DangNP-geo-stub