Patan
Patan, Lalitpur Metropolitan City, is one of the largest cities in Nepal and is located just across the Bagmati river from Kathmandu. Confusingly, it is also known as Lalitpur, both names deriving from the Sanskrit "Lalitapattan".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 254,000 residents
- Description: city in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
- Also known as: “Baddan”, “Lalita”, “Lalita Patan”, “Lalitapura”, “Lalitpur”, “Lalitpur (Nepal)”, “Lalitpur Metropolitan City”, “Lalitpur, Nepal”, “Lalitpura”, “Manigal”, “Nekbal”, “Nekbal City”, “Nepal”, “Nepal City”, “Pātan”, “Patan Lalitpur”, “Patana”, “Pātana”, “Pāṭana”, and “Yala”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dasharath Rangasala and Central Zoo.
Dasharath Rangasala
Stadium
Dasharath Rangasala is a multi-purpose stadium in Tripureshwar, Kathmandu. It is named after Dasharath Chand, one of the four great martyrs of Nepal. The stadium is used mostly for football matches and cultural programmes.
Central Zoo
Zoo
The Central Zoo is a 6-hectare zoo in Jawalakhel, Nepal. It is home to some 969 animals in 109 species, and is operated by the National Trust for Nature Conservation.
Tusha Hiti
Historic site
Photo: Shadow Ayush, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tusha Hiti or Tusa Hiti, also known as Royal Bath, is a sunken bath that was used by the Malla royal family in Nepal. It is at the courtyard of Sundari Chowk, Patan Durbar Square, Lalitpur.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chobhar and Central Kathmandu.
Chobhar
Photo: Tsering Gyurmey Lama, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chobhar is an ancient hill village in Kathmandu Valley 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.
Central Kathmandu
Photo: Anup Sadi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Central Kathmandu covers Ratna Park, the former palace and New Road, and is home to a number of luxury hotels and the embassy quarter.
Kathmandu
Photo: Xiquinho, Public domain.
Kathmandu is the largest city and capital of Nepal and the namesake of the Kathmandu Valley. 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.
Patan
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Lalitpur, Bagmati Province, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.6766° or 27° 40′ 36″ northLongitude
85.3166° or 85° 18′ 60″ eastPopulation
254,000Elevation
1,334 metres (4,377 feet)Open location code
7MV7M8G8+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 723880699OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1282931Wikidata ID
Q6647
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Patan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باتان”
- Arabic: “لاليتبور”
- Asturian: “Lalitpur”
- Basque: “Patan”
- Belarusian: “Лалітпур”
- Bengali: “পাটন”
- Bengali: “ললিতপুর, নেপাল”
- Bengali: “ললিতপুর”
- Bhojpuri: “ललितपुर”
- Bulgarian: “Патан”
- Catalan: “Lalitpur Patan”
- Catalan: “Lalitpur”
- Catalan: “Patan Lalitpur”
- Catalan: “Patan”
- Cebuano: “Pātan”
- Chinese: “勒利德布尔”
- Chinese: “勒利德布爾”
- Chinese: “拉利特普尔”
- Croatian: “Patan”
- Czech: “Lalitpur”
- Czech: “Pátan”
- Danish: “Patan”
- Dotyali: “ललितपूर”
- Dutch: “Patan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باتان”
- Esperanto: “Lalitpur”
- Finnish: “Lalitpur”
- Finnish: “Patan”
- French: “Lalitpur”
- French: “Patan”
- Galician: “Patan”
- German: “Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City”
- German: “Lalitpur”
- Greek: “Λαλιτπούρ”
- Gujarati: “લલિતપુર”
- Hebrew: “לליטפור”
- Hebrew: “פטן”
- Hindi: “पाटन”
- Hindi: “ललितपुर”
- Hungarian: “Patan”
- Hungarian: “Pátan”
- Indonesian: “Patan, Lalitpur”
- Irish: “Lalitpur”
- Italian: “Patan”
- Japanese: “パタン”
- Japanese: “ラリトプル”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಟನ್”
- Kannada: “ಲಲಿತ್ಪುರ್”
- Korean: “랄릿푸르”
- Kurdish: “Lalitpur”
- Latvian: “Lalitpura”
- Latvian: “Latipura”
- Lithuanian: “Patanas”
- Maithili: “ललितपुर उपमहानगरपालिका”
- Maithili: “ललितपुर महानगरपालिका”
- Malay: “Lalitpur”
- Marathi: “ललितापूर”
- Mongolian: “Лалитпур, Балба”
- Mongolian: “Патан хот”
- Nepali: “ललितपुर महानगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “ललितपुर”
- Newari: “यल उपमहानगर”
- Newari: “यल उपमहानगरपालिका”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lalitpur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Patan”
- Norwegian: “Patan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Patan”
- Oriya: “ଲଳିତପୁର, ନେପାଳ”
- Panjabi: “ਲਲਿਤਪੁਰ”
- Persian: “لالیتپور”
- Persian: “للیتپور”
- Polish: “Patan”
- Portuguese: “Patan”
- Russian: “Лалитпур”
- Sindhi: “پاتن”
- Sindhi: “لليتپور”
- Sinhala: “ලලිට්පුර්”
- Slovenian: “Lalitpur, Nepal”
- Slovenian: “Lalitpur”
- Spanish: “Lalitpur”
- Spanish: “Patan”
- Swedish: “Patan”
- Tamil: “பாதன்”
- Tamil: “லலித்பூர், நேபாளம்”
- Telugu: “లలిత్ పూర్”
- Telugu: “లలిత్పూర్”
- Thai: “ปาฏัน”
- Tibetan: “ལ་ལི་ཏ་པུར། Lalitpur”
- Turkish: “Lalitpur”
- Turkish: “Latilpur”
- Ukrainian: “Лалітпур”
- Ukrainian: “Патан”
- Urdu: “پاٹن”
- Urdu: “للت پور”
- Uzbek: “Lalitpur”
- Venetian: “Patan”
- Vietnamese: “Lalitpur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lalitpur, Nepal”
- Waray (Philippines): “Patan, Lalitpur”
- Welsh: “Lalitpur”
- Western Panjabi: “للتپور، نیپال”
- Western Panjabi: “للتپور”
- “ललितपुर, नेपाल”
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