Ramkot
Ramkot is a village of the Nagarjun Municipality, Bagmati Province, Nepal. The 2011 Nepal census recorded that Ramkot had a population of 6,303 people in 1,427 independent households.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: human settlement in Nepal
- Also known as: “Ramkot, Nepal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Swayambhunath and Natural History Museum.
Swayambhunath
Buddhist temple
Swayambhunath is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. The Tibetan and Sanskrit name for the site means 'self-arising' or 'self-sprung'. Swayambhunath is situated 4 km east of Ramkot.
Natural History Museum
Museum
Photo: Ganesh Paudel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Natural History Museum of Nepal is located near the World Heritage Site of Swayambhunath. The museum was established in 1975. Since then the museum has collected 50,000 specimens of Nepal’s flora, fauna, and funga. Natural History Museum is situated 3½ km east of Ramkot.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sitapaila and Tinthana.
Sitapaila
Suburb
Sitapaila is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Nagarjun Municipality in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. The name of the community comes from "Sita" who was the wife of Lord Ram and daughter of Nepalese King Janak and "paila" meaning footsteps in Nepali. Sitapaila is situated 2½ km southeast of Ramkot.
Tinthana
Suburb
Tinthana is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 9,726. Tinthana is situated 4 km southeast of Ramkot.
Thankot
Suburb
Photo: Sundar1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thankot is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. Thankot is situated 5 km southwest of Ramkot.
Ramkot
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Nagarjun, Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.72086° or 27° 43′ 15″ northLongitude
85.25218° or 85° 15′ 8″ eastElevation
1,394 metres (4,573 feet)Open location code
7MV7P7C2+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 3029448725OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Bhojpuri to Spanish—“Ramkot” goes by many names.
- Bhojpuri: “रामकोट”
- Cebuano: “Ramkot”
- Dutch: “Ramkot”
- Irish: “Ramkot”
- Malay: “Ramkot, Nepal”
- Malay: “Ramkot”
- Nepali: “रामकोट”
- Polish: “Ramkot”
- Spanish: “Ramkot”
- “रामकोट”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Ramkot”. Photo: Laxman Thapa, CC BY-SA 2.0.