Kathmandu

Kathmandu is the largest city and capital of , and the namesake of the . Once thought to be the fabled and inaccessible Shangri-La, Kathmandu is a fast-growing spot catering to a wide range of holiday types and budgets.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include West Kathmandu and East Kathmandu.

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covers the backpacker areas of Thamel, Swayambhu, Durbar Square, and Freak Street in Kathmandu. It is a maze of alleys crammed with handicraft shops, guest houses, and cafés.

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covers the eastern fringes of Kathmandu, including Boudhanath, also known as Boudha. It is home to one of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world, built during the 5th century AD.

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is the heart of Kathmandu. It covers Ratna Park, the former palace and New Road, and is home to a number of luxury hotels and the embassy quarter.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Narayanhiti Palace Museum and Dasharath Rangasala.

Museum
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The is a public museum in Kathmandu, located east of the Kaiser Mahal and next to . The museum was created in 2008 from the complex of the former Narayanhiti Palace following the 2006 revolution.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Tripureshwar, Kathmandu. It is named after Dasharath Chand, one of the four great martyrs of . The stadium is used mostly for football matches and cultural programmes.

Buddhist temple
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is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the , west of Kathmandu city in Nepal. The Tibetan and Sanskrit name for the site means 'self-arising' or 'self-sprung'.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Patan and Kirtipur.

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, Lalitpur Metropolitan City, is one of the largest cities in and is located just across the Bagmati river from Kathmandu. Confusingly, it is also known as Lalitpur, both names deriving from the Sanskrit "Lalitapattan".

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is a town in the of , 5 km southwest of Kathmandu on a rocky hill between 1,300-1,500 m in elevation. It is one of the oldest settlements in the valley, and was an ancient capital of Nepal.

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is an ancient hill village in a few kilometres southwest of Kathmandu. It has its origins in the 12th century. It is noted for an extensive series of caves and a gorge on the Bagmati River found nearby.

Kathmandu

Latitude
27.7083° or 27° 42′ 30″ north
Longitude
85.3206° or 85° 19′ 14″ east
Population
975,000
Elevation
1,317 metres (4,321 feet)
IATA airport code
KTM
United Nations Location Code
NP KTM
Open location code
7MV7P85C+86
Open­Street­Map ID
node 67157058
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1283240
Wiki­data ID
Q3037
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Kathmandu” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Kathmandu”
  • Afrikaans: “Katmandoe”
  • Albanian: “Kathmandu”
  • Albanian: “Katmandu”
  • Amharic: “ካትማንዱ”
  • Arabic: “كاتماندو”
  • Arabic: “كاثماندو”
  • Arabic: “كتمندو”
  • Aragonese: “Katmandú”
  • Armenian: “Կատմանդու”
  • Assamese: “কাঠমাণ্ডু”
  • Asturian: “Katmandú”
  • Awadhi: “काठमांडू”
  • Awadhi: “काठमाडौं”
  • Awadhi: “काठमाण्डु”
  • Azerbaijani: “Katmandu”
  • Balinese: “Kathmandu”
  • Bashkir: “Катманду”
  • Basque: “Katmandu”
  • Belarusian: “Катманду”
  • Bengali: “কাঠমান্ডু”
  • Betawi: “Katmandu”
  • Bhojpuri: “काठमांडु”
  • Bhojpuri: “काठमांडू”
  • Bhojpuri: “काठमांडो”
  • Bhojpuri: “काठमाडौं महानगरपालिका”
  • Bhojpuri: “काठमाण्डू”
  • Bosnian: “Katmandu”
  • Breton: “Kathmandu”
  • Bulgarian: “Катманду”
  • Burmese: “ခတ္တမန္ဒုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Katmandú”
  • Cebuano: “Kathmandu (ulohang dakbayan sa Nepal)”
  • Cebuano: “Kathmandu”
  • Central Bikol: “Kathmandu”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاتماندوو”
  • Chavacano: “Katmandú”
  • Chechen: “Катманду”
  • Chinese: “Kathmandu”
  • Chinese: “加德满都”
  • Chinese: “加德滿都”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Katmandu”
  • Croatian: “Katmandu”
  • Czech: “Káthmándú”
  • Danish: “Katmandu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kathmandu”
  • Dotyali: “काठमाडौँ”
  • Dotyali: “काठमाडौं”
  • Dutch: “Kathmandu”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀཊི་མཱན་ཌུ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاتماندو”
  • Esperanto: “Katmanduo”
  • Estonian: “Katmandu”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kathmandu”
  • Fijian: “Kathmandu”
  • Finnish: “Kathmandu”
  • Finnish: “Katmandu”
  • French: “Kathmandou”
  • French: “Katmandou”
  • Galician: “Katmandú”
  • Georgian: “კატმანდუ”
  • German: “Kathmandu”
  • Gorontalo: “Kathmandu”
  • Greek: “Κατμαντού”
  • Guarani: “Katemandu”
  • Gujarati: “કાઠમંડુ”
  • Haitian: “Katmandou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kathmandu”
  • Hausa: “Kathmandu”
  • Hebrew: “קטמנדו”
  • Hindi: “काठमांडु”
  • Hindi: “काठमांडू महानगर”
  • Hindi: “काठमांडू”
  • Hindi: “काठमाण्डु”
  • Hungarian: “Katmandu”
  • Icelandic: “Katmandú”
  • Ido: “Katmandu”
  • Iloko: “Katmandu”
  • Indonesian: “Kathmandu”
  • Interlingua: “Kathmandu”
  • Interlingue: “Kathmandu”
  • Irish: “Kathmandu”
  • Irish: “Katmandu”
  • Italian: “Kathmandu”
  • Italian: “Katmandu”
  • Japanese: “カトマンズ”
  • Japanese: “カトマンドゥ”
  • Japanese: “カンティプル”
  • Javanese: “Kathmandu”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kathmandu”
  • Kannada: “ಕಠ್ಮಂಡು”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಠ್ಮಂಡು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Katmandu”
  • Kashmiri: “کاٹھمنڈوٗ”
  • Kazakh: “Катманду”
  • Kirghiz: “Катманду”
  • Komering: “Kathmandu”
  • Korean: “까뜨만두”
  • Korean: “카트만두”
  • Kurdish: “Kathmandu”
  • Lao: “ກາດມານດຸ”
  • Latin: “Catmandum”
  • Latvian: “Katmandu”
  • Ligurian: “Katmandu”
  • Limburgan: “Kathmandu”
  • Lithuanian: “Katmandu”
  • Livvi: “Katmandu”
  • Lombard: “Kathmandu”
  • Low German: “Katmandoe”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Katmandu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Katmandu”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kathmandu”
  • Macedonian: “Катманду”
  • Magahi: “काठमाडौँ”
  • Magahi: “काठमाण्डु”
  • Magahi: “काष्ठमण्डप”
  • Maithili: “काठमाडौँ”
  • Maithili: “काठमाडौं”
  • Maithili: “काठमाण्डौ”
  • Malagasy: “Kathmandu”
  • Malay: “Kathmandu”
  • Malayalam: “കാഠ്മണ്ഡു”
  • Maltese: “Kathmandu”
  • Marathi: “काठमांडू”
  • Mazanderani: “کاتماندو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kathmandu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kathmandu”
  • Minangkabau: “Kathmandu”
  • Mingrelian: “კატმანდუ”
  • Mirandese: “Kathmandu”
  • Moksha: “Катманду”
  • Mongolian: “Катманду”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كاطماندو”
  • Nepali: “काठमांडू”
  • Nepali: “काठमाडौं उपत्यका”
  • Nepali: “काठमाडौँ”
  • Nepali: “काठमाडौं”
  • Nepali: “काठमाण्डू”
  • Nepali: “काठमाण्डौं”
  • Nepali: “कान्तिपुर , काष्ठमण्डप”
  • Newari: “येँ जिल्ला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kathmandu”
  • Northern Luri: “کاتماندو”
  • Northern Sami: “Kathmandu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Katmandu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Katmandu”
  • Norwegian: “Katmandu”
  • Novial: “Katmandu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Katmandó”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cæþmandū”
  • Oriya: “କାଠମାଣ୍ଡୁ”
  • Ossetian: “Катманду”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਠਮੰਡੂ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਠਮਾਂਡੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Katmandu”
  • Persian: “کاتماندو”
  • Piemontese: “Kathmandu”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kathmandu”
  • Polish: “Katmandu”
  • Portuguese: “Catmandu”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade dos Templos”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Metropolitana de Catmandu”
  • Portuguese: “jiade mandu”
  • Portuguese: “Kathmandu”
  • Portuguese: “Katmandu”
  • Portuguese: “Khatmandu”
  • Portuguese: “Vale de Catmandu”
  • Pushto: “کاتماندو”
  • Romanian: “Kathmandu”
  • Russia Buriat: “Катманду”
  • Russian: “Катманду”
  • Sakizaya: “Cye-te-man-tu”
  • Samogitian: “Katmandū”
  • Sanskrit: “काट्मण्डू”
  • Sanskrit: “काठमाण्डू”
  • Sanskrit: “काष्ठमण्डपनगरम्”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱴᱷᱢᱟᱱᱰᱩ”
  • Sardinian: “Katmandù”
  • Scots: “Kathmandu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kathmandu”
  • Serbian: “Катманду”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Katmandu”
  • Shan: “ၵတ်ႉမၼ်းတူႇ”
  • Shona: “Kathmandu”
  • Sicilian: “Katmandu”
  • Sicilian: “Katmandù”
  • Silesian: “Katmandu”
  • Sindhi: “کٽمنڊو”
  • Sinhala: “කත්මණ්ඩු”
  • Sinhala: “කත්මන්ඩු”
  • Slovak: “Káthmandu”
  • Slovenian: “Katmandu”
  • Spanish: “Katmandu”
  • Spanish: “Katmandú”
  • Swahili: “Kathmandu”
  • Swedish: “Katmandu”
  • Tagalog: “Kathmandu”
  • Tagalog: “Katmandu”
  • Tajik: “Катманду”
  • Talysh: “Katmandu”
  • Tamil: “காட்மண்டு”
  • Tamil: “காட்மாண்டு”
  • Tamil: “காட்மாண்டூ”
  • Tatar: “Катманду”
  • Telugu: “కాఠ్మండు”
  • Telugu: “ఖాట్మండు”
  • Telugu: “ఖాట్మండూ, కాఠ్మండు”
  • Thai: “กาฐมาณฑุ”
  • Tibetan: “ཀ་ཏ་མན་ཏུ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཀཋ་མན་གྲུ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kathmandu”
  • Turkish: “Katmandu”
  • Turkmen: “Katmandu”
  • Udmurt: “Катманду”
  • Uighur: “كاتماندۇ”
  • Ukrainian: “Катманду”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Katmandu”
  • Urdu: “کٹھمنڈو”
  • Urdu: “کھٹمنڈو”
  • Uzbek: “Katmandu”
  • Venetian: “Katmandu”
  • Veps: “Katmandu”
  • Vietnamese: “Kathmandu”
  • Volapük: “Kathmandau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kathmandu”
  • Welsh: “Kathmandu”
  • Western Armenian: “Քաթմանտու”
  • Western Frisian: “Katmandû”
  • Western Panjabi: “کٹھمنڈو”
  • Western Panjabi: “کھٹمنڈو”
  • Wu Chinese: “加德满都”
  • Yiddish: “קאטמאנדו”
  • Yoruba: “Kathmandu”
  • Yue Chinese: “加德滿都”
  • Zulu: “i-Kathmandu”
  • “Kathmandu”
  • “Katmandu”
  • “Katmandū”
  • “Q3037”
  • “काठमांडो”

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