Budhanilkantha
Budhanilkantha is a city and municipality in Kathmandu district of Bagmati province of Nepal. It is the 3rd largest city in the Kathmandu Valley after Kathmandu and Lalitpur.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: municipality in Kathmandu District, Nepal
- Also known as: “Budanilkantha”, “Budha-Nilkantha”, “Budhanilkantha Municipality”, “Budhanilkantha Nagarpalika”, and “Burhānilkantha”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Budhanilkantha Temple and Budhanilkantha School.
Budhanilkantha Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Bharatahs, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Budanilkantha Temple, located in Budhanilkantha, Nepal, is a Hindu open air temple dedicated to Lord Mahavishnu. Budhanilkantha Temple is also known as the Narayanthan Temple for Hindus, and can be identified by a large reclining statue of Lord Mahavishnu.
Budhanilkantha School
School
Budhanilkantha School, often referred to as BNKS, is a competitive non-profit boarding school in Nepal. It is located in Narayanthan, 8 kilometres north of Kathmandu, at the foothills of Shivapuri mountain. Budhanilkantha School is situated 2½ km north of Budhanilkantha.
Kanti Children’s Hospital
Hospital building
Kanti Children's Hospital is a pediatric hospital in Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal. The hospital is administered and regulated by the Kanti Children's Hospital Development Board, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Health, Government of Nepal. Kanti Children’s Hospital is situated 3½ km southwest of Budhanilkantha.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tokha Saraswati and Tokha Chandeshwari.
Tokha Saraswati
Suburb
Tokha Saraswati is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Tokha Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 5,152.
Tokha Chandeshwari
Suburb
Tokha Chandeshwari is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Tokha Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal.
Tokha
Town
Tokha is a municipality in Kathmandu District in Bagmati Province of Nepal established 2 December 2014 by merging the former Village development committees Dhapasi, Jhor Mahankal, Gongabu, Tokha Chandeshwari and Tokha Saraswati. Tokha is situated 3 km southwest of Budhanilkantha.
Budhanilkantha
- Categories: municipality of Nepal, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Budhanilakantha, Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.76036° or 27° 45′ 37″ northLongitude
85.35063° or 85° 21′ 2″ eastElevation
1,440 metres (4,724 feet)Open location code
7MV7Q962+47OpenStreetMap ID
node 1772109893OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Thai—“Budhanilkantha” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بودانيلكانثا”
- Bhojpuri: “बूढानीलकण्ठ”
- Cebuano: “Buḍhānilkanṭha”
- Chinese: “布达尼尔坎塔”
- Chinese: “布達尼爾坎塔”
- Dutch: “Budhanilkantha”
- German: “Budhanilkantha”
- Hebrew: “בודהאנילקאנטהה”
- Irish: “Budhanilkantha”
- Japanese: “ブダニールカンタ寺院”
- Japanese: “ブンダニカンタ”
- Kannada: “ಬುಡನೀಲಕಂಠ”
- Kurdish: “Budhanilkantha”
- Maithili: “बुढानिलकण्ठ नगरपालिका”
- Maithili: “बूढानीलकण्ठ नगरपालिका”
- Malay: “Budanilkantha”
- Marathi: “बूढानीलकंठ”
- Nepali: “बुढानिलकण्ठ नगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “बुध्दनीलकण्ठ स्थान”
- Nepali: “बूढानीलकण्ठ नगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “बूढानीलकण्ठ”
- Newari: “बुद्धनीलकण्ठ”
- Persian: “بودانیلکانتا”
- Persian: “بودانیلکنته”
- Polish: “Budanilkantha”
- Portuguese: “Budhanilkantha”
- Russian: “Буданилкантха”
- Russian: “Буранилакантха”
- Tamil: “பூதநீலகண்டம்”
- Thai: “เทวสถานพุธนิลกัณฑะ”
- Thai: “พูฒานีลกัณฐะ”
- “बूढानीलकण्ठ”
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