Kathmandu- Capital city of Nepal

Kathmandu city

Kathmandu is the capital and biggest region of Nepal. It is additionally considered as capital of South Asia and holds headquarter of SAARC. It is the main city of Nepal with the regulatory status of Mahanagar (Metropolitan City), when contrasted with Upa-Mahanagar (Sub-Metropolitan City) or Nagar (City). Kathmandu is the center of Nepal's biggest urban agglomeration situated in the Kathmandu Valley comprising of Lalitpur, Kirtipur, Madhyapur Thimi, Bhaktapur and various littler groups. Kathmandu is likewise referred to casually as "KTM" or the "tri-city". As indicated by the 2011 registration, Kathmandu Metropolitan City has a populace of 975,453 and measures 49.45 square kilometers (19.09 sq mi).

The city remains at a height of give or take 1,400 meters (4,600 ft) in the dish formed Kathmandu Valley of focal Nepal.[4] It is encompassed by four noteworthy slopes: Shivapuri, Phulchoki, Nagarjun, and Chandragiri. Kathmandu Valley is a piece of three areas (Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and Bhaktapur), has the most elevated populace thickness in the nation, and is home to around a twelfth of Nepal's populace.

Verifiably, the Kathmandu Valley and connecting ranges were known as Nepal Mandala. Until the fifteenth century, Bhaktapur was its capital when two different capitals, Kathmandu and Lalitpur, were established.[5] During the Rana and Shah periods, British antiquarians called the valley itself "Nepal Proper". Today, Kathmandu is not just the capital of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, additionally the base camp of the Bagmati Zone then the Central Development Region of Nepal.

Kathmandu is the portal to tourism in Nepal. It is likewise the nation's center economy. It has the most developed base of any urban range in Nepal, and its economy is centered around tourism, which represented 3.8% of Nepal's GDP in 1995–96. Tourism in Kathmandu declined from that point amid a time of political distress, yet from that point forward has moved forward. In 2013, Kathmandu was positioned third among the main 10 travel destinations on the ascent on the planet by TripAdvisor, and positioned first in Asia.

The city has a rich history, spreading over about 2000 years, as gathered from engravings found in the valley. Religious and social merriments frame a noteworthy piece of the lives of individuals living in Kathmandu. A large portion of Kathmandu's kin take after Hinduism and numerous others take after Buddhism. There are individuals of different religious convictions too, giving Kathmandu a multicultural humanity. Nepali is the most normally talked dialect in the city. English is comprehended by Kathmandu's informed occupants. Kathmandu was crushed by a 7.8 size seismic tremor on April 2