Salyan or Salyan Khalanga is the headquarters of Salyan District

Salyan District

Salyan District of 213,500. The district's administrative center is named Salyan or Salyan Khalanga.The district is known for its Hindu temples including Shiva temples in Chhayachhetra and Laxmipur, and the Devi temple at Khairabang in Hiwalcha VDC, one of nine in Nepal...

 in the mid-west 'hills' of Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

. It is located at 28°22'31N 82°9'42E at 1530 metres elevation (5020 feet).

Rapti Highway from Tulsipur

Tulsipur, Rapti

Tulsipur is a town and V.D.C. in Dang Deokhuri District in the Rapti Zone of south-western Nepal. It is also the district's main bazaar. The 1991 Nepal census counted 13,815 persons in 2,540 households. Dang Airport is about two km south of the town center...

 follows the Sarda River 3 km. (1.9 miles) east of the town at 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) elevation. As of 2010 it was being extended north to Musikot

Musikot Khalanga

Musikot Khalanga is a village development committee and seat of Rukum District in the Rapti Zone of western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 7279 people living in 1474 individual households....

, Rukum District

Rukum District

Rukum District of 188,438. Musikot is the district's administrative center.Rukum district has many potential tourist attractions that remain unexplored. There is 5,849 meter Mt. Sisne , also called virgin mountain. Nobody claims to have conquered this mountain yet. Rukum is also called "the...

 A spur road from this highway climbs up to Salyan Khalanga and the town has bus connections to Tulsipur, Ghorahi

Tribhuvannagar

Tribhuvan Nagar, renamed as Ghorahi is a municipality of Dang Valley, Dang Deokhuri District of Rapti Zone, southwest Nepal.Tribhuvannagar can be reached by the road that goes 23 kilometers North from Lamahi, a small town on the Mahendra highway....

 and Mahendra Highway

Mahendra Highway

Mahendra Highway also called East West Highway runs across the Terai region of Nepal, from Kankarbhitta in the east to Mahendranagar in the west, cutting across the entire width of the country. It is the longest highway in Nepal.-Overview:...

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