Districts compared

Lalitpur vs Dolpa

Lalitpur (551,667 people, headquarters Lalitpur (Patan)) and Dolpa (42,774 people, headquarters Dunai (Thuli Bheri)) compared side by side, population, density and area. Lalitpur has 508,893 more people.

	Lalitpur	Dolpa
Population (2021)	551,667	42,774
Area	385 km²	7,889 km²
Density	1,433/km²	5/km²
Annual growth 2011-21	+1.58%/yr	+1.47%/yr
Literacy	88.1%	67%
Sex ratio (males/100 females)	100.95	99.85
Headquarters	Lalitpur (Patan)	Dunai (Thuli Bheri)
Province	Bagmati	Karnali
Local levels	6	8

Lalitpur

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

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Dolpa

Nepal's largest district, trans-Himalayan Dolpo, Shey Phoksundo National Park and Phoksundo Lake

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Questions

Lalitpur vs Dolpa, answered

Which has more people, Lalitpur or Dolpa?+

Lalitpur district had 551,667 people at the 2021 census and Dolpa had 42,774, so Lalitpur has 508,893 more people (National Population and Housing Census 2021).

Which is larger by area, Lalitpur or Dolpa?+

Lalitpur covers 385 km² and Dolpa covers 7,889 km², a difference of 7,504 km². Dolpa is the larger of the two.

Which is more densely populated, Lalitpur or Dolpa?+

Lalitpur has a density of 1,433 people/km² and Dolpa has 5 people/km². Lalitpur is denser.

What are the headquarters of Lalitpur and Dolpa districts?+

Lalitpur district's headquarters is Lalitpur (Patan); Dolpa's is Dunai (Thuli Bheri). Lalitpur is in Bagmati Province, Dolpa in Karnali 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.