About this project

About SthanKosh

The Digital Gazetteer of Nepal

What is SthanKosh?

SthanKosh (स्थानकोश) is a Nepal-focused digital gazetteer designed to help people discover, explore, and understand places across Nepal.

From provinces, districts, municipalities, and wards to villages, towns, cities, government offices, schools, hospitals, historical landmarks, and natural attractions, SthanKosh aims to bring information about Nepal's places together in one searchable platform.

SthanKosh is an independent project within the Nepalwide.org ecosystem, developed to make place-related information easier to find, understand, and navigate.

Why SthanKosh?

Every place has more to it than just a name or a location on a map.

When someone searches for a place such as Chabahil, they may want to know which ward it belongs to, which municipality and district it falls under, where the relevant local government office is located, or what important places are nearby.

Such information can be scattered across different websites, government records, maps, and directories.

SthanKosh aims to organize this information into structured, interconnected place profiles, making it easier to understand not only where a place is, but also what it is and how it connects to the rest of Nepal.

What Can You Explore?

SthanKosh is designed to cover a wide range of places and geographical information, including:

• Administrative Areas: Provinces, districts, metropolitan cities, municipalities, rural municipalities, and wards.
• Cities and Localities: Cities, towns, villages, neighborhoods, settlements, and other local areas.
• Government and Public Offices: Municipal offices, ward offices, government institutions, and public service locations.
• Education and Healthcare: Schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, and healthcare institutions.
• Natural and Geographical Features: Mountains, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, and other natural landmarks.
• Cultural and Historical Places: Temples, monasteries, museums, heritage sites, and historical landmarks.
• Transport and Public Places: Airports, bus parks, parks, and other important locations.

Each place profile may include its administrative hierarchy, geographical details, location, relevant institutions, official information, and links to related places, depending on the availability of reliable data.

More Than Just a Map

Maps help us find where a place is. SthanKosh aims to help us understand the place itself.

By connecting geographical locations with administrative structures, public institutions, and related information, SthanKosh provides a broader view of Nepal's places.

Whether you are exploring an unfamiliar locality, looking for administrative information, researching a destination, or simply learning more about Nepal, SthanKosh aims to make that journey easier.

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to make information about Nepal's places more accessible, organized, and useful for everyone.

We aim to build a searchable and interconnected digital reference that helps people explore Nepal's geography, administrative divisions, institutions, and places of interest.

SthanKosh is intended for people living in Nepal, Nepalis around the world, students, researchers, travelers, and anyone interested in understanding the country better.

Part of Nepalwide.org

SthanKosh is part of Nepalwide.org, an ecosystem of independent digital platforms focused on Nepal.

Within this ecosystem, SthanKosh is designed to serve as a common reference for place-related information. When a location is mentioned across other Nepalwide.org projects, it can link to the corresponding SthanKosh page, helping users discover more about that place.

This interconnected approach aims to make Nepal-related information easier to explore across the ecosystem.

Information and Accuracy

SthanKosh aims to present accurate, useful, and clearly organized information using reliable and publicly available sources, including relevant government and institutional resources.

Place names, administrative boundaries, office details, and other information may change over time. Some profiles may be incomplete or require updates as additional information becomes available.

We aim to improve the platform continuously by expanding its coverage, reviewing information, and correcting inaccuracies.

SthanKosh is an independent information platform and is not an official Government of Nepal website.For official decisions, legal matters, or government services, users should verify information with the relevant authorities.

Our Vision

We envision SthanKosh becoming a comprehensive digital reference for Nepal's places, connecting geographical, administrative, institutional, cultural, and historical information through a single, accessible platform.

Our goal is to help people discover not just where places are, but what makes them important and how they connect to Nepal as a whole.

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