Kathmandu Nepali elocution is the capital and biggest district of Nepal. It additionally has the central command of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). It is the main city of Nepal with the authoritative status of Mahanagar (Metropolitan City), when contrasted with Upa-Mahanagar (Sub-Metropolitan City) or Nagar (City). Kathmandu is the center of Nepal’s biggest urban agglomeration situated in the Kathmandu Valley comprising of Lalitpur, Kirtipur, Madhyapur Thimi, Bhaktapur and various littler groups. Kathmandu is additionally referred to casually as “KTM” or the “tri-city”. As per the 2011 statistics, Kathmandu Metropolitan City has a populace of 975,453 and measures 49.45 km2 (19.09 sq mi).

The city remains at a rise of around 1,400 meters (4,600 ft) in the dish molded Kathmandu Valley of focal Nepal.[6] It is encompassed by four noteworthy slopes: Shivapuri, Phulchoki, Nagarjun, and Chandragiri. Kathmandu Valley is a piece of three locale (Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and Bhaktapur), has the most noteworthy populace thickness in the nation, and is home to around a twelfth of Nepal’s populace.