Kapan
Kapan is a residential area and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Budanilkantha Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement in Nepal
- Also known as: “Kapan, Nepal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boudhanath and East Kathmandu and NMC white hostel.
Boudhanath and East Kathmandu
Photo: Bijay chaurasia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Boudhanath is 7 km east/northeast of central Kathmandu. It is home to one of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world, built during the 5th century AD.
NMC white hostel
College
Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital are major healthcare with 700 bedded institution in Kathmandu, Nepal established in 1997 by the late Sachey Kumar Pahari.
Hyatt Regency Kathmandu
Hotel
Photo: Phdswaindia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, is an urban five-star resort located near the Boudhanath stupa. The hotel, opened in 2000, is built in the traditional Newar architecture on 37 acres of land.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gokarneshwor and Budhanilkantha.
Gokarneshwor
Town
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gokarneshwor is a municipality in Kathmandu District in the Bagmati Province of Nepal that was established on 2 December 2014 by merging the former Village development committees Sundarijal, Nayapati, Baluwa, Jorpati and Gokarna.
Budhanilkantha
Town
Photo: Bharatahs, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. Budhanilkantha is situated 2½ km northwest of Kapan.
Chabahil
Suburb
Photo: Raju Babu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chabahil is an ancient neighborhood in northeast Kathmandu in Nepal. It is famous for its Licchavi stupa, called the Dhando Chaitya, considered by many historians to be the oldest Buddhist Stupa in the valley. Chabahil is situated 3½ km southwest of Kapan.
Kapan
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Budhanilakantha, Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bhojpuri to Spanish—“Kapan” goes by many names.
- Bhojpuri: “कपन”
- Dutch: “Kapan”
- Irish: “Kapan”
- Malay: “Kapan, Nepal”
- Malay: “Kapan”
- Nepali: “कपन”
- Newari: “कपन”
- Polish: “Kapan”
- Spanish: “Kapan (Katmandú)”
- Spanish: “Kapan”
- “कपन”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kapan”. Photo: Laxman Thapa, CC BY-SA 2.0.