Budhanilkantha is a city and municipality in

Kathmandu district Kathmandu District ( ne, काठमाडौं जिल्ला; Nepal Bhasa: ये: जिल्ला) is a district located in Kathmandu Valley, Bagmati Province of Nepal. It is one of the 77 districts of Nepal, covers an area of , and ...

of Bagmati province of

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

. It is the 3rd largest

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in 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)), ...

after

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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 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, ...

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 widespread ...

, Mahankal, Bishnu,

Chunikhel Chunikhel 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 Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the ...

and

Kapan Kapan ( hy, Կապան) is a town in southeast Armenia, serving as the administrative center of the urban community of Kapan as well as the provincial capital of Syunik Province. It is located in the valley of the Voghji River and is on the nort ...

. 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 with the 58 municipalities and the 3915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the municipalities an ...

, 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, ( ne, बुढानिलकण्ठ मन्दिर; translation: ''Old Blue Throat'') is a Hindu open air temple dedicated to Lord Mahavishnu. Budhanilkantha Temple is also known as ...

. The

Budhanilkantha School Budhanilkantha School, often referred to as BNKS, is a competitive public boarding school in Nepal. It is located in Narayanthan, 8 kilometres north of Kathmandu, at the foothills of Shivapuri mountain (). It is named after the Budhanilkantha T ...

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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