Patan

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

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

Zoo
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The is a 6-hectare zoo in , . It is home to some 969 animals in 109 species, and is operated by the National Trust for Nature Conservation.

Historic site
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The 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, , Lalitpur.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chobhar and Central Kathmandu.

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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.

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

Patan

Latitude
27.6766° or 27° 40′ 36″ north
Longitude
85.3166° or 85° 18′ 60″ east
Population
254,000
Elevation
1,334 metres (4,377 feet)
Open location code
7MV7M8G8+JJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 723880699
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1282931
Wiki­data 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: “Lalitpur, Nepal”
  • Dutch: “Lalitpur”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “Lalitpur, Nepal”
  • 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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