Districts compared

Lalitpur vs Surkhet

Lalitpur (551,667 people, headquarters Lalitpur (Patan)) and Surkhet (415,126 people, headquarters Birendranagar) compared side by side, population, density and area. Lalitpur has 136,541 more people.

	Lalitpur	Surkhet
Population (2021)	551,667	415,126
Area	385 km²	2,451 km²
Density	1,433/km²	169/km²
Annual growth 2011-21	+1.58%/yr	+1.62%/yr
Literacy	88.1%	82.7%
Sex ratio (males/100 females)	100.95	92.74
Headquarters	Lalitpur (Patan)	Birendranagar
Province	Bagmati	Karnali
Local levels	6	9

Lalitpur

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

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Surkhet

Karnali's provincial capital Birendranagar and the 12th-century Kakrebihar temple

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Questions

Lalitpur vs Surkhet, answered

Which has more people, Lalitpur or Surkhet?+

Lalitpur district had 551,667 people at the 2021 census and Surkhet had 415,126, so Lalitpur has 136,541 more people (National Population and Housing Census 2021).

Which is larger by area, Lalitpur or Surkhet?+

Lalitpur covers 385 km² and Surkhet covers 2,451 km², a difference of 2,066 km². Surkhet is the larger of the two.

Which is more densely populated, Lalitpur or Surkhet?+

Lalitpur has a density of 1,433 people/km² and Surkhet has 169 people/km². Lalitpur is denser.

What are the headquarters of Lalitpur and Surkhet districts?+

Lalitpur district's headquarters is Lalitpur (Patan); Surkhet's is Birendranagar. Lalitpur is in Bagmati Province, Surkhet 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.