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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 222. Chapters: Kathmandu, Mount Everest, Adivasi, Nepal, Village development committee, Sikkim, Sari, Moonshine by country, List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia, Sunil Chhetri, Newa people, Kosi River, Indonesian rupiah, Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Magars, Dhaulagiri, Sri Lankan rupee, Gurkha Contingent, Gyanendra of Nepal, Kingdom of Nepal, Once upon a time, History of the rupee, Bhimsen Thapa, Siliguri, Prachanda, Inner Terai Valleys of Nepal, Tharu people, Darjeeling district, Jang Bahadur Rana, Arjun Narasingha K.C., Pakistani rupee, Bharatpur, Nepal, Biratnagar, Girija Prasad Koirala, Dharan, Nepal, Tabla, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, Surya Bahadur Thapa, Nepalese cuisine, Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, Sandhikharka, Bhaktapur, Narayan Gopal, Nepali language, Bansuri, Butwal, Tuladhar, List of hospitals in Nepal, Indian rupee sign, Nepalgunj, Janakpurdham, Gauri Pradhan, Birendranagar, Rana dynasty. Excerpt: Kathmandu (Nepali: Nepal Bhasa: ) is the capital and, with more than one million inhabitants, the largest metropolitan city of Nepal. The city is the urban core of the Kathmandu Valley in the Himalayas, which contains two sister cities: Lalitpur (Patan), 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to its south and Bhaktapur or Bhadgaon, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) to its east, and a number of smaller towns. It is also acronymed as 'KTM' and named 'tri-city'. In the last census (2001), the city of Kathmandu had 671,846 inhabitants. Population estimates for 2005 were 790,612 for 2010 they stood at 989,273 and 2012 at 1,006,656 The municipal area is (50.67 square kilometres (19.56 sq mi)) and the population density is 19,500 per km . The city stands at an elevation of approximately 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) in the bowl-shaped valley in central Nepal surrounded by four major mountains: Shivapuri, Phulchoki, Nagarjun and Chandragiri. Kathmandu valley is part of three districts, Kathmandu District, Lalitpur District and Bhaktapur District, with the highest population density in the country and accounting for about 1/12 of its population. These three districts contain 2.5 million people, as of the 2011 census. Historically, only the Kathmandu Valley was referred to as "Nepal" by people who lived outside the valley. After the annexation of the valley by the Gorkha kingdom, and subsequent conversion of the valley as the capital of their empire, this designation of "Nepal" was extended to every land they conquered. The valley itself was referred to as "Nepal Proper" by the contemporary British historians. Today Kathmandu is not only the capital of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal but also the headquarters of the Central Region (Madhyamanchal) among the five development regions constituted by the 14 administrative zones of Nepal located at the central part of the country. The Central region has three zones: Bagmati, Narayani and Janakpur. Kathmandu is located in the Bagmati Zone. Kathmandu, as t
