Districts compared

Lalitpur vs Gorkha

Lalitpur (551,667 people, headquarters Lalitpur (Patan)) and Gorkha (251,027 people, headquarters Gorkha) compared side by side, population, density and area. Lalitpur has 300,640 more people.

	Lalitpur	Gorkha
Population (2021)	551,667	251,027
Area	385 km²	3,610 km²
Density	1,433/km²	70/km²
Annual growth 2011-21	+1.58%/yr	-0.74%/yr
Literacy	88.1%	72.4%
Sex ratio (males/100 females)	100.95	88.92
Headquarters	Lalitpur (Patan)	Gorkha
Province	Bagmati	Gandaki
Local levels	6	11

Lalitpur

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

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Gorkha

Cradle of Nepal's unification, Prithvi Narayan Shah's Gorkha Durbar, and home of Manaslu (8,163 m)

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Questions

Lalitpur vs Gorkha, answered

Which has more people, Lalitpur or Gorkha?+

Lalitpur district had 551,667 people at the 2021 census and Gorkha had 251,027, so Lalitpur has 300,640 more people (National Population and Housing Census 2021).

Which is larger by area, Lalitpur or Gorkha?+

Lalitpur covers 385 km² and Gorkha covers 3,610 km², a difference of 3,225 km². Gorkha is the larger of the two.

Which is more densely populated, Lalitpur or Gorkha?+

Lalitpur has a density of 1,433 people/km² and Gorkha has 70 people/km². Lalitpur is denser.

What are the headquarters of Lalitpur and Gorkha districts?+

Lalitpur district's headquarters is Lalitpur (Patan); Gorkha's is Gorkha. Lalitpur is in Bagmati Province, Gorkha in Gandaki 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.