Gandaki Pradesh
Kaski
Pokhara Lekhnath

Pokhara

Pokhara is the second largest city in with about 520,000 people in 2021. It is the starting point for most of the treks in the area. It is a very popular location with most people staying around the beautiful Fewa Lake.
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  • Type: City with 500,000 residents
  • Description: metropolitan city of Nepal
  • Also known as: “Lekhnath”, “Pakhra”, “Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan City”, and “Pokhra”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pokhara Airport and Pokhara Rangasala.

Aerodrome
Photo: Kogo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a domestic airport serving Pokhara in . is supposed to be gradually replaced by Nepal's third international airport, , since 2023.

Stadium
Photo: Glantiwehene, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a multi-purpose stadium in Pokhara, , . It has a capacity of 18,500 spectators. The venue is located to the south of Pokhara at Rambazaar on the eastern bank of .

Museum
Photo: Anup Sadi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a museum located in Pokhara, .

Pokhara

Latitude
28.2095° or 28° 12′ 34″ north
Longitude
83.9914° or 83° 59′ 29″ east
Population
500,000
Elevation
1,008 metres (3,307 feet)
IATA airport code
PKR
United Nations Location Code
NP PKR
Open location code
7MW56X5R+RH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29922899
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1282898
Wiki­data ID
Q6640
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Pokhara” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوخارا”
  • Aragonese: “Pokhara”
  • Armenian: “Պոկհարա”
  • Awadhi: “पोखरा”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pokxara”
  • Basque: “Pokhara”
  • Belarusian: “Покхара”
  • Bengali: “পোখরা”
  • Bhojpuri: “पोखरा”
  • Bulgarian: “Покхара”
  • Burmese: “ပိုခါရာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Pokhara”
  • Cebuano: “Pokhara”
  • Chinese: “博克拉”
  • Chinese: “博卡拉”
  • Czech: “Pókhara”
  • Danish: “Pokhara”
  • Dotyali: “पोखरा उपमहानगरपालिका”
  • Dotyali: “पोखरा”
  • Dutch: “Pokhara”
  • Esperanto: “Pokhara”
  • Fijian: “Pokhara”
  • Finnish: “Pokhara”
  • French: “Pokhara”
  • Galician: “Pokhara”
  • German: “Pokhara”
  • Greek: “Ποκάρα”
  • Gujarati: “પોખરા”
  • Hebrew: “פוקארה”
  • Hebrew: “פוקהרה”
  • Hindi: “पोखरा”
  • Hungarian: “Pokhara”
  • Indonesian: “Pokhara”
  • Irish: “Pokhara”
  • Italian: “Pokhara”
  • Japanese: “ポカラ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೊಖರಾ”
  • Korean: “포카라”
  • Kurdish: “Pokhara”
  • Latvian: “Pokara”
  • Latvian: “Pokhara”
  • Lithuanian: “Pokara”
  • Lithuanian: “Pokhara”
  • Maithili: “पोखरा लेखनाथ महानगरपालिका”
  • Maithili: “पोखरा”
  • Malay: “Pokhara”
  • Malayalam: “പൊഖാറ”
  • Marathi: “पॉखेरा”
  • Mongolian: “Покхара”
  • Nepali: “पोखरा उपमहानगरपालिका”
  • Nepali: “पोखरा महानगरपालिका”
  • Nepali: “पोखरा-लेखनाथ”
  • Nepali: “पोखरा”
  • Newari: “पोखरा उपमहानगरपालिका”
  • Newari: “पोखरा गाविस, रुकुम जिल्ला”
  • Newari: “पोखरा गाविस”
  • Newari: “पोखरा नगरपालिका”
  • Newari: “पोखरा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pokhara”
  • Norwegian: “Pokhara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pokhara”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਖਰਾ”
  • Persian: “پوخارا”
  • Persian: “پوکارا”
  • Polish: “Pokhara”
  • Portuguese: “Pokhara”
  • Romanian: “Pokhara”
  • Russian: “Покхара”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱚᱠᱷᱚᱨᱟ”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱳᱠᱷᱚᱨᱟ”
  • Sinhala: “පොක්හාරා”
  • Slovenian: “Pokhara”
  • Spanish: “Pokhara”
  • Swedish: “Pokhara”
  • Tamil: “பொக்காரா”
  • Telugu: “పోఖారా”
  • Thai: “โปขรา”
  • Turkish: “Pokhara”
  • Ukrainian: “Покгара”
  • Ukrainian: “Покхара”
  • Urdu: “پوکھرا”
  • Venetian: “Pokhara”
  • Veps: “Pokhar”
  • Vietnamese: “Pokhara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pokhara”
  • Wu Chinese: “博卡拉”
  • “पोखरा”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Pokhara”. Photo: Dmottl, CC BY-SA 3.0.