1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Nepal
Compare this sourced profile of Kathmandu, Nepal before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kathmandu—1,442,271, Asia/Kathmandu, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of Nepal.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kathmandu is GeoNames ID 1283240. Its recorded administrative path is Kathmandu → Bagmati Province → Nepal, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Kathmandu occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2019-10-18; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Kathmandu ranks 339 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Nepal entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 196. Its 1,442,271 population value is 1.41 times the 1,021,161 median for the country cohort and 1.43 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kathmandu is rank 1 among the 2 selected Nepal entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Kathmandu's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kathmandu's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Pokhara at 146.889 km with 600,051 recorded people; Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) at 219.205 km with 674,246 recorded people; Patna at 235.075 km with 1,684,297 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 88.186 km. Compared with Pokhara, Kathmandu's recorded population is 2.40 times as large. Against Kathmandu, Pokhara follows Kaski → Gandaki Pradesh → Nepal in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Nepal cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kathmandu identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kathmandu's. Against Kathmandu, Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) follows Gorakhpur → Uttar Pradesh → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected India cohort rather than Nepal, uses Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Kathmandu, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kathmandu's. Against Kathmandu, Patna follows Patna → Bihar → India in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected India cohort rather than Nepal, uses Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Kathmandu, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Kathmandu's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 867 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kathmandu's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1283240, the coordinate pair 27.7017 / 85.3206, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 1282898 at 146.889 km bind Kathmandu to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kathmandu's reference point is 27.7017° north and 85.3206° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kathmandu is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Kathmandu's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kathmandu's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kathmandu's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Kathmandu at 1,317 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kathmandu's closest other entries in this atlas are Pokhara (146.889 km), Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) (219.205 km), Patna (235.075 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2019-10-18; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.