Jorpati is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Gokarneshwar Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central

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 ...

. In the 2011 census it had a population of 84,567 making it one of the largest villages in the world. At the time of the

1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ...

it had a population of 10,796 and had 1,988 households in it. In the year 2016 Jorpati has become Municipality from VDC with a population of more than 500,000. Jorpati is the gateway for Sundarijaal and Sakhu.

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Populated places in Kathmandu District {{KathmanduDistrict-geo-stub