𝓓𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓪𝓭𝓱𝓲 is a sub-metropolitan megacity and the administrative center of Nepal's Sudurpashchim Province's Kailali District. The provincial capital of Sudurpashchim is Dhangadhi. Its neighbors include the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in the south, the municipalities of Godawari and Gauriganga in the north, Kailari Rural Municipality in the east, and the district of Kanchanpur in the west. There a
re 19 wards in the sub-metropolis of Dhangadhi. With a population of around 147,181, it ranks as Nepal's tenth-largest megacity. It covers 261,75 km2 (101,06 sq mi). Along with Mahendranagar, it is one of the largest cities in Nepal's Far-West Province. After being upgraded from mega city to sub-metropolis status on September 18, 2015, when the village development panels of Fulbari and Urma were combined into Dhangadhi, and after Ward Nos. 9 and 11 of the former Attariya Municipality were also merged, it became the first sub-metropolitan mega city in the far-west. There is a myth. Due to his dread of thieves, Rana Tharu of Dhangadhi used to bury his treasure. Because of this, Dhangadhi's name has kept the same.
