Nilakantha
Nilkantha or Neelkantha is one of two Municipalities in the Dhading District of the Bagmati Province of central Nepal. The municipality is located around the center of the district and holds the majority of the population and facilities of the entire district.Photo: Rajivkilanashrestha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town
- Description: human settlement in Nepal
- Also known as: “Nilkantha”, “Nilkantha, Nepal”, and “नीलकण्ठ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dhading Besi and Kumpur.
Dhading Besi
Suburb
Dhading Besi is the headquarter of the Dhading District of Nepal. The town is located within Nilkantha Municipality which is one of the two municipalities of the district.
Kumpur
Photo: Ramghale, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kumpur is a village in the Central Himalayas region of Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 7,916 and 1,405 houses.
Dhuwakot
Hamlet
Dhuwakot is a village in Nilkhantha Ward 14 in the Bagmati Province of central Nepal. In the 1991 Nepal census, the village had a population of 4,270 and 781 houses. Dhuwakot is situated 9 km east of Nilakantha.
Nilakantha
- Categories: human settlement, municipality of Nepal, and locality
- Location: Nilkantha, Dhading, Bagmati Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.91089° or 27° 54′ 39″ northLongitude
84.89528° or 84° 53′ 43″ eastOpen location code
7MV6WV6W+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 3387669747OpenStreetMap feature
place=townWikidata ID
Q7090066
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In Other Languages
From Bhojpuri to Polish—“Nilakantha” goes by many names.
- Bhojpuri: “नीलकंठ”
- Cebuano: “Nilkantha”
- Dutch: “Nilkantha”
- Finnish: “Nilkantha”
- German: “Nilkantha”
- Irish: “Nilkantha”
- Kurdish: “Nilkantha”
- Maithili: “निलकण्ठ नगरपालिका”
- Malay: “Nilkantha, Nepal”
- Malay: “Nilkantha”
- Nepali: “निलकण्ठ”
- Nepali: “नीलकण्ठ नगरपालिका”
- Polish: “Nilkantha”
- “नीलकंठ, नेपाल”
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