Districts compared

Lalitpur vs Bhaktapur

Lalitpur (551,667 people, headquarters Lalitpur (Patan)) and Bhaktapur (432,132 people, headquarters Bhaktapur) compared side by side, population, density and area. Lalitpur has 119,535 more people.

	Lalitpur	Bhaktapur
Population (2021)	551,667	432,132
Area	385 km²	119 km²
Density	1,433/km²	3,631/km²
Annual growth 2011-21	+1.58%/yr	+3.35%/yr
Literacy	88.1%	88%
Sex ratio (males/100 females)	100.95	102.2
Headquarters	Lalitpur (Patan)	Bhaktapur
Province	Bagmati	Bagmati
Local levels	6	4

Lalitpur

Patan Durbar Square and the Newar fine-arts city of Lalitpur

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Bhaktapur

Medieval Newar city of Bhaktapur Durbar Square, Nepal's smallest and fastest-growing district

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Questions

Lalitpur vs Bhaktapur, answered

Which has more people, Lalitpur or Bhaktapur?+

Lalitpur district had 551,667 people at the 2021 census and Bhaktapur had 432,132, so Lalitpur has 119,535 more people (National Population and Housing Census 2021).

Which is larger by area, Lalitpur or Bhaktapur?+

Lalitpur covers 385 km² and Bhaktapur covers 119 km², a difference of 266 km². Lalitpur is the larger of the two.

Which is more densely populated, Lalitpur or Bhaktapur?+

Lalitpur has a density of 1,433 people/km² and Bhaktapur has 3,631 people/km². Bhaktapur is denser.

What are the headquarters of Lalitpur and Bhaktapur districts?+

Lalitpur district's headquarters is Lalitpur (Patan); Bhaktapur's is Bhaktapur. Both districts are in Bagmati Province.

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Sources & data note

All population, household, density, sex-ratio and growth figures are from the National Population and Housing Census 2021 (NSO National Report, Table 15; census reference date 25 November 2021), with 2011 comparisons from the 2011 census recalculated to current boundaries for the four districts split in 2017. Areas are the official statistical areas used by NSO/CBS, the 77 districts sum to exactly 147,181 km², not GIS polygon areas; where Wikipedia's list page prints conflicting areas for the four split districts (Nawalpur, Nawalparasi West, Rukum East, Rukum West), the NSO-consistent figures are used. Literacy rates are computed from NSO Table 24 raw counts (population aged 5+ who can read and write); the computed national aggregate, 76.25%, matches NSO's published 76.2%. Headquarters coordinates are approximate map-pin locations (±2–5 km), not surveyed points.