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Places to see in Nepal

12 of the 20 places VoyaKin maps here. Descriptions from Wikipedia and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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  LumbiniUNESCO

  लुम्बिनी

  Landmark · Lumbini Province

  Lumbini is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Lumbini Province in Nepal. According to sacred texts and Buddhist commentaries, Queen Maya gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, in Lumbini, c. 563 BCE.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Wikimedia Commons: Lumbini 4.jpg (CC BY 3.0). Map

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  Kathmandu ValleyUNESCO

  काठमाडौं उपत्यका

  Nature · Bagmati Province

  The Kathmandu Valley, also known as the Nepal Valley, Nepa Valley or Swaniga:, National Capital Area, is a bowl-shaped valley located in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Krish Dulal (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Chitwan National ParkUNESCO

  चितवन राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्‍ज

  Park & nature · Bagmati Province

  Chitwan National Park is the first national park of Nepal and was established in 1973 as Royal Chitwan National Park. It was granted the status of a World Heritage Site in 1984. It covers an area of 952.63 km2 (367.81 sq mi) in the Terai region of south-central Nepal.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Vadim Tolbatov (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Sagarmatha National ParkUNESCO

  सगरमाथा राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज

  Park & nature · Koshi Province

  Sagarmāthā National Park is a national park in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal that was established in 1976 and encompasses an area of 1,148 km2 (443 sq mi) in the Solukhumbu District. It ranges in elevation from 2,845 to 8,848 m and includes Mount Everest.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg (CC BY 4.0). Map

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  Pashupatinath TempleUNESCO

  Religious · Bagmati Province

  Pashupatinath Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Pashupati, considered a manifestation of Shiva. Located on the banks of the sacred Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal, the temple is one of the oldest and most significant religious complexes in South Asia.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Chainwit (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  SwayambhunathUNESCO

  Park & nature · Bagmati Province

  Swayambhunath is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city in Nepal. The Tibetan and Sanskrit name for the site means 'self-arising' or 'self-sprung'.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg (CC BY 4.0). Map

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  Kathmandu Durbar SquareUNESCO

  वसन्तपुर दरबार क्षेत्र

  Landmark · Bagmati Province

  Kathmandu Durbar Square is a historically and culturally significant site in Kathmandu, Nepal. It is one of the three Durbar Squares in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal that are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Gerd Eichmann (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Mount Everest

  珠穆朗玛峰 ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ། सगरमाथा

  Mountain · Koshi Province

  Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. Its height was most recently measured in 2020 through a joint survey by Nepalese and Chinese authorities as 8,848.86 m.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: shrimpo1967, Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (CC BY-SA 2.0). Map

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  Kathmandu

  काठमाडौं

  City · Bagmati Province

  Kathmandu is the capital and largest city of Nepal, situated in the central part of the country within the Kathmandu Valley. The city is in Kathmandu District. Kathmandu is the main governmental, financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Nepal.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Royonx (CC0). Map

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  Lhotse

  洛子峰 ལྷོ་རྩེ ल्होत्से

  Mountain · Koshi Province

  Lhotse is the fourth-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga. At an elevation of 8,516 metres (27,940 ft) above sea level, the main summit is on the border between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and the Khumbu region of Nepal.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Jamie O'Shaughnessy (talk · contribs) (Public domain). Map

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  Dhaulagiri

  Mountain · Gandaki Province

  Dhaulagiri, located in Nepal, is the seventh highest mountain in the world at 8,167 metres (26,795 ft) above sea level, and the highest mountain within the borders of a single country. Dhaulagiri I is also the highest point of the Gandaki river basin.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg (CC BY 4.0). Map

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  Makalu

  मकालु 马卡鲁峰

  Mountain · Xizang

  Makalu is the fifth-highest mountain on Earth, with a summit at an elevation of 8,485 metres (27,838 ft) AMSL. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas 19 km (12 mi) southeast of Mount Everest, on the China–Nepal border.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Ben Tubby (CC BY 2.0). Map