Gokarneshwar

Gokarneshwar Nagarpalika गोकर्णेश्वर नगरपालिका Gokarneshwar
Coordinates	27 ° 44 '0 "  N , 85 ° 24' 0"  E Coordinates: 27 ° 44 '0 "  N , 85 ° 24' 0"  E
Basic data
Country	Nepal
province	Bagmati
District	Kathmandu
height	1382 m
surface	58.5 km²
Residents	107,351 (2011)
density	1,835.1  Ew. / km²
founding	2nd December 2014
16 wards
Gokarna Mahadev Temple in Gokarneshwar

Gokarneshwar ( Nepali गोकर्णेश्वर ) is a city ( municipality ) in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal and belongs to the Kathmandu metropolitan area .

The city, located in the northeast of the Kathmandu district , was created in 2014 by merging the five Village Development Committees (VDCs) Baluwa , Gokarna , Jorpati , Nayapati and Sundarijal . The city administration is located in the administration building of the former VDC Jorpati. The urban area covers 58.5 km². Gokarneswor borders directly on the capital Kathmandu in the southwest. The southern part of the urban area is very populous. In the north of Gokarneshwar, in the former VDC Sundarijal, a wooded ridge rises, which is partly in the Shivapuri-Nagarjun National Park .

Residents

At the 2011 census, the VDCs, from which the city of Gokarneshwar emerged, had 107,351 inhabitants (53,725 of them male) in 27,106 households.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Govt creates 61 new municipalities . Nepal Mountain News. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Municipal Association of Nepal (MuAN) ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ National Population and Housing Census 2011 (PDF) Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013.