Budhanilkantha
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Budhanilkantha is a city and municipality in Kathmandu district of Bagmati province of Nepal. It is the 3rd largest city in the Kathmandu Valley after Kathmandu and Lalitpur. As per 2021 Nepal census, the city population was 179,688 and 26,678 households.
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- Budhanilkantha Municipality
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- बूढानीलकण्ठ
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- Municipality (नगरपालिका)
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- From top, left to right: Budhanilkantha skyline from Jhanda Park, Budhanilkantha School, Budhanilkantha Temple, Snow clad Shivapuri hills seen from the playground.
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- Nepal Bagmati Province#Nepal
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- 300
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- Location in Nepal
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- District
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- Bagmati
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- Kathmandu
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- Budhanilkantha Temple
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- Mayor
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- Mitharam Adhikari (UML)
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- Deputy Mayor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Bagmati Zone
- Time zone
- UTC+05:45
- Official website
- budhanilkanthamun.gov.np
- Image
- Budanilkantha town and Shivapuri hills.jpg
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- Budhanilkantha
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Budhanilkantha is a city and municipality in Kathmandu district of Bagmati province of Nepal. It is the 3rd largest city in the Kathmandu Valley after Kathmandu and Lalitpur. As per 2021 Nepal census, the city population was 179,688 and 26,678 households.
It was established on 2 December 2014 by merging the former Village development committees Hattigauda, Khadka Bhadrakali, Chapali Bhadrakali, Mahankal, Bishnu, Chunikhel and Kapan. The city is situated at the foot of Shivapuri hill. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, the VDC of Budhanilkantha had a population of 15,421.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Budhanilkantha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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