Dadeldhura District

Dadeldhura (Nepali: डडेल्धुरा), a part of Sudurpashchim Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal.

The district is seldom visited by tourists but contains local routes to Mt Kailash in Tibet, RaRa Lake in Mugu district (Typically this is not the route to Rara lake), and the last remaining remnants of the Far Western Malla Kingdom.

[citation needed] The spoken language is Doteli (Dotyali) and the majority of inhabitants are Hindu.

[6] At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, Dadeldhura District had a population of 142,094.

[10] Ethnicity/caste: 53.6% were Chhetri, 15.8% Hill Brahmin, 10.6% Kami, 4.5% Sarki, 3.8% Damai/Dholi, 3.6% Magar, 2.5% Thakuri, 1.8% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 1.6% Lohar, 0.9% Newar, 0.2% Badi, 0.2% other Dalit, 0.2% Raute, 0.2% Yadav, 0.1% Gurung, 0.1% Tharu, and 0.2% others.

Map of the VDCs in Dadeldhura District