Changunarayan ( ne, चाँगुनारायण) is a
municipality in
Bhaktapur District
Bhaktapur district ( ne, भक्तपुर जिल्ला; Nepal Bhasa : ख्वप देश (जिल्ला) located in the eastern part of Kathmandu valley, is the smallest district among the seventy-seven districts of Nep ...
in the
Province No. 3
Bagmati Province ( ne, बाग्मती प्रदेश, ''Bagmati Pradesh'') is one of the seven provinces of Nepal established by the constitution of Nepal. The province is Nepal's second-most populous province and fifth largest provinc ...
of
Nepal and is part of the
urban agglomeration of the
Kathmandu Valley
The Kathmandu Valley ( ne, काठमाडौं उपत्यका; also known as the Nepal Valley or Nepa Valley ( ne, नेपाः उपत्यका, Nepal Bhasa: 𑐣𑐾𑐥𑐵𑑅 𑐐𑐵𑑅, नेपाः गाः)), ...
. The municipality was created through the merger of the former
Village development committees
A village development committee ( ne, गाउँ विकास समिति; ''gāum̐ vikās samiti'') in Nepal was the lower administrative part of its Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development. Each district had several VDCs, ...
Old-Changunarayan,
Chhaling,
Duwakot and
Jhaukhel in 2014.
At the time of the
2011 Nepal census
Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with the 58 municipalities and the 3915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the municipalities an ...
, the predecessors of Changunarayan Municipality had a population of 55,430. In 2017, the municipality of
Mahamanjushree Nagarkot was merged into Changunarayan.
The municipality is also home to the
UNESCO World Heritage Site Changu Narayan.
See also
*
Changu Narayan
References
Populated places in Bhaktapur District
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