Dolpo, the culturally Tibetan high country of upper Dolpa, is recorded from about the 8th century; after Tibet's fragmentation in 842 it fell under Purang and briefly Guge, came under the Kingdom of Lo in the 14th century, and was temporarily independent under the Ra nag dynasty in the 15th-16th centuries. Nepal absorbed Lo and Dolpo in 1789 following the Gorkha expansion into the Himalaya. Dolpa was formally established as a district in 1962, and with Nepal's 2015 constitution it became part of Karnali Province. Dolpa Airport at Juphal, inaugurated in 1978, linked the district by air to Nepalgunj, and the district was finally connected to Nepal's national road network in 2018.
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