Okhaldhunga
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Okhaldhunga
ओखलढुङ्गा | |
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Merged to Siddhicharan Municipality | |
  Okhaldhunga Location in Nepal | |
| Coordinates: 27°19′N 86°30′E / 27.317°N 86.500°E | |
| Country |  Nepal |
| Zone | Sagarmatha Zone |
| District | Okhaldhunga District |
| Elevation | 1,561 m (5,121 ft) |
| Population (1991) | |
• Total | 3,761 |
| Time zone | UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time) |
Okhaldhunga is the headquarters of the Okhaldhunga District in the Sagarmatha Zone of Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3761 living in 790 individual households.[1]
Climate
[edit]| Climate data for Okhaldhunga, elevation 1,731 m (5,679 ft), (1991–2020) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 15.8 (60.4) |
18.1 (64.6) |
21.8 (71.2) |
24.6 (76.3) |
25.2 (77.4) |
25.4 (77.7) |
24.9 (76.8) |
25.1 (77.2) |
24.6 (76.3) |
23.6 (74.5) |
20.8 (69.4) |
17.4 (63.3) |
22.3 (72.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 10.6 (51.1) |
12.6 (54.7) |
16.2 (61.2) |
19.1 (66.4) |
20.3 (68.5) |
21.3 (70.3) |
21.3 (70.3) |
21.4 (70.5) |
20.6 (69.1) |
18.7 (65.7) |
15.4 (59.7) |
12.1 (53.8) |
17.5 (63.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 5.3 (41.5) |
7.1 (44.8) |
10.5 (50.9) |
13.6 (56.5) |
15.3 (59.5) |
17.2 (63.0) |
17.7 (63.9) |
17.6 (63.7) |
16.6 (61.9) |
13.7 (56.7) |
10.0 (50.0) |
6.7 (44.1) |
12.6 (54.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 12.0 (0.47) |
14.9 (0.59) |
25.8 (1.02) |
66.5 (2.62) |
153.0 (6.02) |
292.9 (11.53) |
417.8 (16.45) |
416.0 (16.38) |
265.0 (10.43) |
61.2 (2.41) |
8.0 (0.31) |
8.2 (0.32) |
1,741.3 (68.56) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 1.6 | 2.2 | 3.9 | 7.9 | 14.0 | 18.4 | 22.2 | 21.4 | 16.3 | 5.4 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 115.1 |
| Source 1: World Meteorological Organization[2] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Department of Hydrology and Meteorology[3] | |||||||||||||
Media
[edit]To promote local culture Okhaldhunga has two FM radio stations: Radio Likhu (91.3 MHz) and Ramailo Samudayek Radio (100.6 MHz), both of which are community radio stations.[4][5][6]
Gallery
[edit]-
tholedema khijeeview -
toledema -
Gaungtol -
dandakhi -
KhijiV -
KhijiDVC2 -
Khijee3 -
Khiji4 -
satatol -
Portrait of a woman at Okhaldunga -
Portrait of a woman at Okhaldunga
References
[edit]- ^ "Nepal Census 2001", Nepal's Village Development Committees, Digital Himalaya, archived from the original on October 12, 2008, retrieved 15 November 2009.
- ^ "World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991–2020". World Meteorological Organization. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
- ^ "PRECIPITATION NORMAL (MM) (1991-2020)" (PDF). Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
- ^ "ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY RADIO BROADCASTERS NEPAL (ACORAB)::Introduction". www.acorab.org.np. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
- ^ Network, Indigenous Community Radio. "Radio Likhu 91.3 MHz". Indigenous Community Radio Network. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
- ^ Report on BHN visit to Radio Kairan and Radio Likhu in Ramechhap, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2020-06-30
External links
[edit]Headquarters: Okhaldhunga | ||
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