Kathmandu

Kathmandu is the basic and better burghal burghal of Nepal. The burghal is the burghal amount of the Kathmandu Basin in the Himalayas, which additionally contains two sister cities namely Patan or Lalitpur, 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) to its southeast (an age-old burghal of accomplished arts and crafts) and Bhaktapur, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) to its east (city of devotees). It is additionally acronymed as 'KTM' and called 'tri-city'. Kathmandu basin is alone hardly abate than Singapore in agreement of area.

The burghal stands at an acclivity of about 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) in the bowl-shaped basin in axial Nepal amidst by four above mountains, namely: Shivapuri, Phulchowki, Nagarjun and Chandragiri. It is inhabited by 949,486 (2009) people. The Kathmandu basin with its three districts including Kathmandu District accounts for a citizenry body of alone 97 per km2 admitting Kathmandu burghal burghal has a body of 13,225 per km2. It is by far the better burghal accrue in Nepal, accounting for 20% of the burghal citizenry in an breadth of 5,067 hectares (12,520 acres) (50.67 aboveboard kilometres (19.56 sq mi)).

Kathmandu is not alone the basic of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal but additionally the address of the Axial Arena (Madhyamanchal) amid the bristles development regions constituted by the 14 authoritative zones of Nepal amid at the axial allotment of the country. The Axial arena has three zones namely, Bagmati, Narayani and Janakpur. Kathmandu is amid in the Bagmati Zone. Kathmandu, as the aperture to Nepal Tourism, is the assumption centre of the country’s economy. With the best avant-garde basement amid burghal areas in Nepal, Kathmandu's abridgement is tourism axial accounting for 3.8% of the GDP in 1995–96 (had beneath back afresh due to political agitation but has best up again).

The city’s affluent history is about 2000 years old, as accepted from an inscription in the valley. Its religious affiliations are dominantly Hindu followed by Buddhism. Bodies of added religious behavior additionally alive in Kathmandu giving it a catholic culture. Nepali is the accepted accent of the city, admitting abounding allege the Nepal Bhasa Newari as it is the centermost of theNewar (meaning: citizens of Nepal) bodies and culture. English and Hindi are accepted by all of the accomplished citizenry of the city. Besides a cogent cardinal of the citizenry speaks any of the adopted languages like : French, German, Chinese, Hebrew, Korean etc. The articulacy amount is 98% in the city.

Kathmandu is now the arch cultural and bread-and-butter hub of Nepal and is advised to accept the best avant-garde basement amid burghal areas in Nepal. From the point of appearance of tourism, abridgement and cultural heritage, the sister cities of Patan(lalitpur) and Bhaktapur are basic to Kathmandu. Even the cultural ancestry acceptance beneath the World Ancestry account of the UNESCO has accustomed all the monuments in the three burghal agglomerates as one assemblage beneath the appellation "Kathmandu Valley-UNESCO World Ancestry Site.