Bhaktapur (District)

Bhaktapur District
Location of the Bhaktapur district (red) in Nepal
Basic data
Country	Nepal
province	Bagmati
Seat	Bhaktapur
surface	119 km²
Residents	304,651 (2011 census)
density	2560 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	NP-P3
VDCs and cities (blue) in Bhaktapur

Coordinates: 27 ° 41 ′  N , 85 ° 27 ′  E

The Bhaktapur district is the smallest district in terms of area in the Bagmati administrative zone in Nepal .

It has an area of ​​119 km² and a population of 304,651 (2011). The administrative seat is the city of the same name Bhaktapur .

Residents

The following table shows the development in terms of inhabitants per square kilometer, the total number of households in the city and the average number of people per household.

year	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
Population density	830.68	1,342.58	1,453.38	1,894.63	2,560.09
Number of households	18,908	25,047	28,160	41,253	68,636
Inhabitants per household	5.83	6.38	6.14	5.47	4.44

Administrative division

The following cities are in the district of Bhaktapur :

• Anantaline shwar
• Bhaktapur
• Changunarayan
• Madhyapur Thimi
• Mahamanjushri-Nagarkot
• Suryabinayak

All Village Development Committees in the Bhaktapur District were merged into newly founded cities as part of the community reform at the end of 2014.

Web links

Commons : Bhaktapur District  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

• Nepal at statoids.com (English)
• Statistical data from the UN ( Memento from January 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

1. ↑ Central Bureau of Statistics, Census 2011: National Report (pp. 51–52, Population Total and Area in Sq. Km ). ( Memento from May 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 7.8 MB)