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Kathmandu

Kathmandu is really two cities: a fabled capital of convivial pilgrims and carved rose-brick temples, and a frenetic sprawl of modern towers, mobbed by beggars and monkeys and smothered in diesel fumes. It simultaneously reeks of history and the encroaching wear and tear of the modern world.

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Full Name: Kathmandu
Population: 700,000
Area: 230 square kilometres
Language Spoken Nepali

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