Districts compared

Lalitpur vs Makwanpur

Lalitpur (551,667 people, headquarters Lalitpur (Patan)) and Makwanpur (466,073 people, headquarters Hetauda) compared side by side, population, density and area. Lalitpur has 85,594 more people.

	Lalitpur	Makwanpur
Population (2021)	551,667	466,073
Area	385 km²	2,426 km²
Density	1,433/km²	192/km²
Annual growth 2011-21	+1.58%/yr	+0.99%/yr
Literacy	88.1%	77.8%
Sex ratio (males/100 females)	100.95	100.67
Headquarters	Lalitpur (Patan)	Hetauda
Province	Bagmati	Bagmati
Local levels	6	10

Lalitpur

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

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Makwanpur

Hetauda, the capital of Bagmati Province, beneath the Daman viewpoint on the Tribhuvan Highway

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Questions

Lalitpur vs Makwanpur, answered

Which has more people, Lalitpur or Makwanpur?+

Lalitpur district had 551,667 people at the 2021 census and Makwanpur had 466,073, so Lalitpur has 85,594 more people (National Population and Housing Census 2021).

Which is larger by area, Lalitpur or Makwanpur?+

Lalitpur covers 385 km² and Makwanpur covers 2,426 km², a difference of 2,041 km². Makwanpur is the larger of the two.

Which is more densely populated, Lalitpur or Makwanpur?+

Lalitpur has a density of 1,433 people/km² and Makwanpur has 192 people/km². Lalitpur is denser.

What are the headquarters of Lalitpur and Makwanpur districts?+

Lalitpur district's headquarters is Lalitpur (Patan); Makwanpur's is Hetauda. 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.