Kirtipur

Kirtipur is a town in the of , 5 km southwest of 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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  • Town with 65,600 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,343 metres (4,406 feet)
  • Description: municipality in Kathmandu District, Nepal
  • Also known as
    “Kipoo”
    “Kripur”
    “Kritipur”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jal Binayak Temple.
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Jal Binayak is a Hindu Temple of Lord Ganesh located…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chobhar and Patan.
Tsering Gyurmey Lama, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an ancient hill village in a few kilometres southwest of Kathmandu.
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, Lalitpur Metropolitan City, is one of the…
is a town and former Village Development…

Kirtipur

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Latitude
27.6767° or 27° 40′ 36″ north
Longitude
85.2782° or 85° 16′ 42″ east
Open location code
7MV7M7GH+M7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3347570023
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1283190
Wiki­data ID
Q1517030

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Kirtipur” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Kirtipur”
  • Bulgarian: “Киртипур”
  • Cebuano: “Kirtipur”
  • Chinese: “吉爾蒂布爾”
  • Dotyali: “कीर्तिपुर”
  • Dutch: “Kirtipur”
  • Finnish: “Kirtipur”
  • French: “Kirtipur”
  • German: “Kipu”
  • German: “Kirtipur”
  • Hebrew: “קירטיפור”
  • Hindi: “किर्तीपुर”
  • Hindi: “कीर्तिपुर”
  • Japanese: “キルティプル”
  • Kurdish: “Kirtipur”
  • Lithuanian: “Kyrtipuras”
  • Maithili: “कीर्तिपुर नगरपालिका”
  • Marathi: “कीर्तिपूर”
  • Nepali: “Ki̇̄rtipur”
  • Nepali: “किर्तिपुर”
  • Nepali: “कीर्तिपुर नगरपालिका”
  • Nepali: “कीर्तिपुर”
  • Newari: “किपु”
  • Newari: “किपू नगरपालिका”
  • Newari: “कीपु नगरपालिका”
  • Newari: “क्येपु नगरपालिका”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kirtipur”
  • Norwegian: “Kirtipur”
  • Persian: “کیرتیپور”
  • Persian: “کیرتی‌پور”
  • Polish: “Kirtipur”
  • Portuguese: “Kirtipur”
  • Russian: “Киртипур”
  • Spanish: “Kirtipur”
  • Swedish: “Kirtipur”
  • Tamil: “கீர்த்திபூர்”
  • Tatar: “Киртипур каласы”
  • Telugu: “కీర్తిపూర్”
  • Thai: “กีรติปุระ”
  • Urdu: “کرتیپور”
  • Urdu: “کیرتی پور”

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