Budhanilkantha is a city and municipality in

Kathmandu district Kathmandu District (; Nepal Bhasa: ये: जिल्ला) is a district located in Kathmandu Valley, Bagmati Province of Nepal. It is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal, covers an area of , and is the most densely populated dist ...

of Bagmati province of

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

. It is the 3rd largest

city A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

in the

Kathmandu Valley The Kathmandu Valley (), also known as the Nepal Valley or Nepa Valley (, Newar language, Nepal Bhasa: 𑐣𑐾𑐥𑐵𑑅 𑐐𑐵𑑅, नेपाः गाः), National Capital Area, is a bowl-shaped valley located in the Himalayas, Hima ...

after

Kathmandu Kathmandu () is the capital and largest city of Nepal, situated in the central part of the country within the Kathmandu Valley. As per the 2021 Nepal census, it has a population of 845,767 residing in 105,649 households, with approximately 4 mi ...

and Lalitpur. As per

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, 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 Khadka Bhadrakali was a village in Kathmandu District in the Bagmati Zone before being incorporated into city of Budhanilkantha (along with Chapali Bhadrakali, Mahankal, Bishnu Budhanilkantha, Chunikhel and Kapan). At the time of the 1991 Nepal cen ...

Chapali Bhadrakali Chapali Bhadrakali is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Budanilkantha Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespre ...

, Mahankal, Bishnu, Chunikhel and

Kapan Kapan ( ) is a town in southeast Armenia, serving as the administrative centre of the Kapan Municipality and also as the provincial capital of Syunik Province. It is located in the valley of the Voghji (river), Voghji River and is on the norther ...

. The city is situated at the foot of Shivapuri hill. At the time of the

2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working in cooperation with the 58 municipalities and the 3,915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the m ...

, the VDC of Budhanilkantha had a population of 15,421. The municipality is named after the sacred

Budhanilkantha Temple Budhanilkantha Temple, located in Budhanilkantha, Nepal, (; translation: ''Old Blue Throat'') is a Hindu open air temple dedicated to Lord Mahavishnu. Budhanilkantha Temple is also known as the Narayanthan Temple for Hindus, and can be identifie ...

. The

Budhanilkantha School Budhanilkantha School, often referred to as BNKS, is a competitive non-profit boarding school in Nepal. It is located in Narayanthan, 8 kilometres north of Kathmandu, at the foothills of Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park, Shivapuri mountain (). It ...

is also located within the municipality.

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Vishnu Sleeps in the Hanuman Dhoka: Sleeping Vishnu
Populated places in Kathmandu District {{KathmanduDistrict-geo-stub

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