Kathmandu
Kathmandu is the largest city and capital of Nepal and the namesake of the Kathmandu Valley. Once thought to be the fabled and inaccessible Shangri-La, Kathmandu is a fast-growing spot catering to a wide range of holiday types and budgets.Photo: Rabs003, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Xiquinho, Public domain.
Popular Destinations
Boudhanath and East Kathmandu
Photo: Bijay chaurasia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Boudhanath is 7 km east/northeast of Kathmandu. It is home to one of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world, built during the 5th century AD.
Thamel and West Kathmandu
Thamel and West Kathmandu is in Kathmandu and covers the backpacker area of Thamel, Swayambhu, Durbar Square, and Freak Street.Central Kathmandu
Photo: Anup Sadi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Central Kathmandu covers Ratna Park, the former palace and New Road, and is home to a number of luxury hotels and the embassy quarter.
Photo: Thapa.laxman, Copyrighted free use.
Photo: Ashishlohorung, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Basantapur Durbar Square
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kathmandu Durbar Square is a historically and culturally significant site in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Swayambhunath
Swayambhunath is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city.Localities in the Area
Patan
Photo: Pixelated Pixels, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Patan, Lalitpur Metropolitan City, is one of the largest cities in Nepal and is located just across the Bagmati river from Kathmandu.
Kirtipur
Photo: Etter Studio, CC BY 2.0.
Kirtipur is a town in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, 5 km southwest of Kathmandu on a rocky hill between 1,300-1,500 m in elevation.
Chobhar
Photo: Tsering Gyurmey Lama, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chobhar is an ancient hill village in Kathmandu Valley a few kilometres southwest of Kathmandu.
Kathmandu
- Type: City with 975,000 residents
- Description: capital of Nepal
- Categories: municipality, capital city, big city, largest city and locality
- Location: Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.7083° or 27° 42' 30" northLongitude
85.3206° or 85° 19' 14" eastPopulation
975,000Elevation
1,317 metres (4,321 feet)IATA airport code
KTMUnited Nations Location Code
NP KTMOpen Location Code
7MV7P85C+86OpenStreetMap ID
node 67157058OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1283240Wikidata ID
Q3037Kathmandu Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Kathmandu
- Afar: Katmandu
- Afrikaans: Katmandoe
- Akan: Kathmandu
- Albanian: Kathmandu
- Albanian: Katmandu
- Amharic: ካትማንዱ
- Arabic: Kathmandu
- Arabic: كاتماندو
- Arabic: كاثماندو
- Aragonese: Katmandú
- Armenian: Կատմանդու
- Armenian: Քաթմանտու
- Assamese: কাঠমাণ্ডু
- Asturian: Katmandú
- Awadhi: काठमाडौं
- Azerbaijani: Katmandu
- Balinese: Kathmandu
- Bashkir: Катманду
- Basque: Katmandu
- Belarusian: Катманду
- Bengali: কাঠমান্ডু
- Bhojpuri: काठमांडु
- Bhojpuri: काठमांडू
- Bhojpuri: काठमांडो
- Bhojpuri: काठमाडौं महानगरपालिका
- Bhojpuri: काठमाण्डू
- Bosnian: Katmandu
- Breton: Kathmandu
- Bulgarian: Катманду
- Burmese: ခတ္တမန္ဒုမြို့
- Catalan: Katmandú
- Cebuano: Kathmandu (ulohang dakbayan sa Nepal)
- Cebuano: Kathmandu
- Central Bikol: Kathmandu
- Central Kurdish: کاتماندوو
- Chavacano: Katmandú
- Chechen: Катманду
- Chinese: Kathmandu
- Chinese: 加德满都
- Chinese: 加德滿都
- Crimean Tatar: Katmandu
- Croatian: Katmandu
- Czech: Káthmándú
- Danish: Katmandu
- Dimli (individual language): Kathmandu
- Dotyali: काठमाडौँ
- Dotyali: काठमाडौं
- Dutch: Kathmandu
- Egyptian Arabic: كاتماندو
- English: City of Temples
- English: Kantipur
- English: Kasthamandap
- English: Kathmandu Metropolitan City
- English: Kathmandu Valley
- English: Khatmandu
- English: Yambu
- English: Yen
- Esperanto: Katmanduo
- Estonian: Katmandu
- Fiji Hindi: Kathmandu
- Fijian: Kathmandu
- Finnish: Kathmandu
- Finnish: Katmandu
- French: Kathmandou
- French: Katmandou
- Galician: Katmandú
- Georgian: კატმანდუ
- German: Kathmandu
- Greek: Κατμαντού
- Guarani: Katemandu
- Gujarati: કાઠમંડુ
- Haitian: Katmandou
- Hakka Chinese: Kathmandu
- Hausa: Kathmandu
- Hebrew: קטמנדו
- Hindi: काठमांडु
- Hindi: काठमांडू
- Hindi: काठमांडू महानगर
- Hindi: काठमाण्डु
- Hungarian: Katmandu
- Icelandic: Katmandú
- Ido: Katmandu
- Iloko: Katmandu
- Indonesian: Kathmandu
- Interlingua: Kathmandu
- Interlingue: Kathmandu
- Irish: Kathmandu
- Italian: Kathmandu
- Italian: Katmandu
- Japanese: カトマンズ
- Japanese: カトマンドゥ
- Japanese: カンティプル
- Javanese: Kathmandu
- Kalaallisut: Kathmandu
- Kannada: ಕಠ್ಮಂಡು
- Kannada: ಕಾಠ್ಮಂಡು
- Kara-Kalpak: Katmandu
- Kazakh: Катманду
- Kirghiz: Катманду
- Korean: 까뜨만두
- Korean: 카트만두
- Kurdish: Kathmandu
- Lao: Katmandu
- Lao: ກາດມານດຸ
- Latin: Catmandum
- Latvian: Katmandu
- Ligurian: Katmandu
- Limburgan: Kathmandu
- Lithuanian: Katmandu
- Livvi: Katmandu
- Lombard: Kathmandu
- Low German: Katmandoe
- Lower Sorbian: Katmandu
- Luxembourgish: Katmandu
- Macedo-Romanian: Kathmandu
- Macedonian: Катманду
- Maithili: काठमाडौँ
- Maithili: काठमाडौं
- Maithili: काठमाण्डौ
- Malagasy: Kathmandu
- Malay: Kathmandu
- Malayalam: കാഠ്മണ്ഡു
- Maltese: Kathmandu
- Marathi: काठमांडू
- Mazanderani: کاتماندو
- Min Dong Chinese: Kathmandu
- Min Nan Chinese: Kathmandu
- Minangkabau: Kathmandu
- Mingrelian: კატმანდუ
- Mirandese: Kathmandu
- Mongolian: Катманду
- Moroccan Arabic: كاطماندو
- Nepali: काठमांडू
- Nepali: काठमाडौँ
- Nepali: काठमाडौं
- Nepali: काठमाडौं उपत्यका
- Nepali: काठमाण्डू
- Nepali: कान्तिपुर , काष्ठमण्डप
- Newari: येँ जिल्ला
- Northern Frisian: Kathmandu
- Northern Luri: کاتماندو
- Northern Sami: Kathmandu
- Norwegian: Katmandu
- Norwegian Bokmål: Katmandu
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Katmandu
- Novial: Katmandu
- Occitan (post 1500): Katmandó
- Oriya: କାଠମାଣ୍ଡୁ
- Ossetian: Катманду
- Panjabi: ਕਠਮੰਡੂ
- Panjabi: ਕਾਠਮਾਂਡੂ
- Papiamento: Katmandu
- Persian: کاتماندو
- Piemontese: Kathmandu
- Polish: Katmandu
- Portuguese: Catmandu
- Portuguese: Cidade Metropolitana de Catmandu
- Portuguese: Cidade dos Templos
- Portuguese: Kathmandu
- Portuguese: Katmandu
- Portuguese: Khatmandu
- Portuguese: Vale de Catmandu
- Portuguese: jiade mandu
- Pushto: کاتماندو
- Romanian: Kathmandu
- Russia Buriat: Катманду
- Russian: Катманду
- Samogitian: Katmandū
- Sanskrit: काट्मण्डू
- Sanskrit: काठमाण्डू
- Santali: ᱠᱟᱴᱷᱢᱟᱱᱰᱩ
- Santali: ᱠᱟᱴᱷᱩᱢᱟᱱᱰᱩ
- Sardinian: Katmandù
- Scots: Kathmandu
- Scottish Gaelic: Kathmandu
- Serbian: Катманду
- Serbo-Croatian: Katmandu
- Shona: Kathmandu
- Sicilian: Katmandu
- Sicilian: Katmandù
- Silesian: Katmandu
- Sindhi: کٽمنڊو
- Sinhala: කත්මණ්ඩු
- Sinhala: කත්මන්ඩු
- Slovak: Káthmandu
- Slovenian: Katmandu
- Spanish: Katmandu
- Spanish: Katmandú
- Swahili: Kathmandu
- Swedish: Katmandu
- Tagalog: Kathmandu
- Tagalog: Katmandu
- Tajik: Катманду
- Talysh: Katmandu
- Tamil: காட்மண்டு
- Tamil: காட்மாண்டு
- Tamil: காட்மாண்டூ
- Tatar: Катманду
- Telugu: కాఠ్మండు
- Telugu: ఖాట్మండు
- Telugu: ఖాట్మండూ, కాఠ్మండు
- Thai: กาฐมาณฑุ
- Tibetan: ཀ་ཏ་མན་ཏུ།
- Tibetan: ཀཋ་མན་གྲུ།
- Tok Pisin: Kathmandu
- Turkish: Katmandu
- Turkmen: Katmandu
- Udmurt: Катманду
- Uighur: كاتماندۇ
- Ukrainian: Катманду
- Upper Sorbian: Katmandu
- Urdu: کٹھمنڈو
- Urdu: کھٹمنڈو
- Uzbek: Katmandu
- Venetian: Katmandu
- Veps: Katmandu
- Vietnamese: Kathmandu
- Volapük: Kathmandau
- Waray (Philippines): Kathmandu
- Welsh: Kathmandu
- Western Armenian: Քաթմանտու
- Western Frisian: Katmandû
- Western Panjabi: کٹھمنڈو
- Western Panjabi: کھٹمنڈو
- Wu Chinese: 加德满都
- Yiddish: קאטמאנדו
- Yoruba: Kathmandu
- Yue Chinese: 加德滿都
- Kantipura
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