Kapilvastu Municipality
Kapilvastu, formerly known by name of Taulihawa, is a municipality and administrative center of Kapilvastu District in Lumbini Province of southern Nepal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: municipality in Kapilvastu District, Nepal
- Also known as: “Kapilavastu”, “Kapilbastu”, “Kapilvastu”, “Piprahwa”, “Semari tilaurakot”, “Taulia”, “Taulihawa”, and “Taulihawā”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kapilavastu.
Kapilavastu
Forest
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Kapilavastu was an ancient city in the eastern Gangetic plains of the Indian subcontinent which was the capital of the clan gaṇasaṅgha or "republic" of the Shakyas in the late Iron Age, around the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Kapilavastu is situated 3½ km north of Kapilvastu Municipality.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kapilvastu and Parsohiya.
Kapilvastu
Kapilvastu District, often Kapilbastu, is one of the districts of Lumbini Province, Nepal. The district, with Kapilbastu municipality as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,738 square kilometres and in 2001 had a population of 481,976, which…Parsohiya
Village
Parsohiya is a village development committee in Kapilvastu District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2952 people living in 466 individual households. Parsohiya is situated 8 km south of Kapilvastu Municipality.
Kapilvastu Municipality
- Categories: municipality of Nepal, border city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Kapilvastu, Kapilbastu, Lumbini Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.54365° or 27° 32′ 37″ northLongitude
83.05258° or 83° 3′ 9″ eastElevation
93 metres (305 feet)Open location code
7MV5G3V3+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 2246485364OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Kapilvastu Municipality” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կապիլավաստու”
- Awadhi: “कपिलवस्तु नगरपालिका”
- Bengali: “কপিলাবস্তু”
- Bishnupriya: “কপিলাবস্তু”
- Burmese: “ကပိလဝတ်”
- Burmese: “ကပိလဝတ်ပြည်”
- Burmese: “ကပိလဝတ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Kapilavastu”
- Catalan: “Kapilavistu”
- Chinese: “迦毗罗卫”
- Chinese: “迦毗羅衛”
- Chinese: “迦毗羅衛國”
- Chinese: “迦毗羅衛城”
- Chinese: “迦毗羅衞”
- Chinese: “迦毘羅衛城”
- Chinese: “道拉赫瓦”
- Czech: “Kapilavast”
- Czech: “Kapilavastu”
- Czech: “Kapilavatthu”
- Czech: “Kapilvastu”
- Danish: “Kapilavastu”
- Dutch: “Kapilavastu”
- French: “Kapilavastu”
- French: “Kapilavatsu”
- French: “Kapilavatthu”
- German: “Kapilavastu”
- Hindi: “कपिलवस्तु नगरपालिका”
- Hindi: “कपिलवस्तु”
- Hungarian: “Kapilavasztu”
- Hungarian: “Kapilavatthu”
- Hungarian: “Taulihawa”
- Indonesian: “Kapilavastu”
- Italian: “Kapilavastu”
- Italian: “Kapilavatthu”
- Italian: “Kapilbastu”
- Japanese: “カピラヴァスツ”
- Japanese: “カピラヴァストゥ”
- Japanese: “カピラヴァストゥ市”
- Japanese: “カピラヴァッツ”
- Japanese: “カピラバスツ”
- Japanese: “カピラバストゥ”
- Japanese: “カピラ城”
- Japanese: “タウリハワ”
- Japanese: “トウリハワ”
- Kannada: “ಕಪಿಲವಸ್ತು”
- Kazakh: “Капилавасту”
- Khmer: “កបិលវត្ថុ”
- Macedonian: “Капилавасту”
- Maithili: “कपिलवस्तु नगरपालिका”
- Malayalam: “Kapilavastu”
- Malayalam: “കപിലവസ്തു”
- Nepali: “कपिलवस्तु नगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “बाणगंङ्गा”
- Newari: “कपिलवस्तु नगरपालिका”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapilavastu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapilvastu”
- Polish: “Kapilavastu”
- Portuguese: “Capilavasto”
- Portuguese: “Capilavastu”
- Portuguese: “Kapilavastu”
- Russian: “Капилавасту”
- Sinhala: “කපිලවස්තු”
- Sinhala: “කපිලවස්තුපුර”
- Sinhala: “කපිලවස්තුපුරය”
- Sinhala: “කිඹුල්වත් නුවර”
- Slovenian: “Kapilavastu”
- Tamil: “கபிலவஸ்து”
- Thai: “กบิลพัสดุ์”
- Thai: “กรุงกบิลพัสดุ์”
- Thai: “เมืองกบิลพัสดุ์”
- Vietnamese: “Kapilavastu”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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