Pharping
Pharping is a small Newar town lying above the Bagmati river on the southern edge of the Kathmandu valley, about 23 km from the capital. It is now part of the Dakshinkali Municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: human settlement in Nepal
- Also known as: “Parping” and “Pharpin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karya Binayak Temple.
Karya Binayak Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Setoghoda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Karya Binayak is a Hindu temple located in Bungamati, Lalitpur District. It is about ten kilometres south of Kathmandu. Karya Binayak Temple is situated 4 km northeast of Pharping.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chobhar and Dakshinkali.
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.
Dakshinkali
Town
Photo: Sicherlich, CC BY 3.0.
Dakshinkali is a municipality in Kathmandu District in the Province No. 3 of Nepal that was established on 2 December 2014 by merging the former Village development committees Chalnakhel, Chhaimale, Sheshnarayan, Sokhel, Talku Dudechaur and Old-Dakshinkali.
Dukuchhap
Suburb
Dukuchhap is a village development committee in Lalitpur District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3501. Dukuchhap is situated 4 km southeast of Pharping.
Pharping
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Kathmandu Valley, Mahalaxmi, Lalitpur, Bagmati Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.6116° or 27° 36′ 42″ northLongitude
85.267° or 85° 16′ 1″ eastElevation
1,553 metres (5,095 feet)Open location code
7MV7J768+MROpenStreetMap ID
node 336935191OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Telugu—“Pharping” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Pharping”
- Bengali: “ফার্পিং”
- Chinese: “帕尔平格”
- Chuvash: “Парпинг”
- Japanese: “ファルピン”
- Nepali: “Pharpiṅ”
- Nepali: “फर्पिङ”
- Russian: “Парпинг”
- Telugu: “ఫార్పింగ్”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pharping”. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.