Banepa

Banepa is a municipality and historical town in a valley situated at about 1,500 m above sea level in central which is at about 25 kilometres east from .
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  • Type: Town with 67,600 residents
  • Description: Old Newari town
  • Also known as: “Banepa Bazar” and “Panepa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Scheer Memorial Hospital and Chandeshwori Temple.

Hospital
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Hindu temple
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Chandeshwari is the avatar taken by Hindu goddess Kumari of Hindu. The 'Nepal Mahatmya' of Skanda Purana mentions the story related to goddess Chandeshwari.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dhulikhel and Panauti.

Photo: Rameshjarvis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town of about 10,000 people, in the region of . The town lies on the intersection of the Arkino Highway to Tibet and the B.P.

Town
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is a municipality in Kavrepalanchok District in Bagmati Province of Nepal 32 km southeast of the capital, . A medieval architectural complex there was nominated by the Nepalese government as a UNESCO tentative site in 1996. is situated 5 km south of Banepa.

Suburb
Bansdol is officially designated as Ward No. 12 of Banepa Municipality in the Kavrepalanchok District, . It was formerly the Village Development Committee before the local government restructuring that integrated it into Banepa.

Banepa

Latitude
27.6299° or 27° 37′ 48″ north
Longitude
85.524° or 85° 31′ 27″ east
Population
67,600
Elevation
1,477 metres (4,846 feet)
Open location code
7MV7JGHF+XJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10633046921
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1283679
Wiki­data ID
Q1760422
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Yakut—“Banepa” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Banepa”
  • Bhojpuri: “बनेपा”
  • Cebuano: “Banepā”
  • Chinese: “巴內帕”
  • Dutch: “Banepa”
  • French: “Banepa”
  • German: “Banepa”
  • Hindi: “बनेपा”
  • Japanese: “バネパ”
  • Kurdish: “Banepa”
  • Maithili: “बनेपा नगरपालिका”
  • Malay: “Banepa”
  • Nepali: “बनेपा नगरपालिका”
  • Newari: “भोत नगरपालिका”
  • Persian: “بانپا”
  • Persian: “بنپا”
  • Polish: “Banepa”
  • Portuguese: “Banepa”
  • Russian: “Банепа”
  • Urdu: “بانیپا”
  • Urdu: “بنیپا”
  • Vietnamese: “Banepa”
  • Yakut: “Банепа”

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