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With Hetauda as its provincial headquarters, the province is also the home to the country's capital Kathmandu, is mostly hilly and mountainous, and hosts mountain peaks including Gaurishankar, Langtang, Jugal, and Ganesh.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"province of Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22049119"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104015#P31"}},{"key":"population","label":"Population","values":[{"text":"6,116,866 (2021)","as_of":"2021-11","value":6116866.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104015#P1082"}},{"key":"area","label":"Area","values":[{"text":"20,300 km²","value":20300.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104015#P2046"}},{"key":"established","label":"Established","values":[{"text":"20 September 2015","date":"2015-09-20"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104015#P571"}},{"key":"website","label":"Official website","values":[{"text":"ocmcm.bagamati.gov.np","url":"http://ocmcm.bagamati.gov.np/"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104015#P856"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagmati_Province","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B6","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104015","http://ocmcm.bagamati.gov.np/"],"faq":[{"q":"What is the population of Bagmati Province?","a":"The population of Bagmati Province is 6,116,866 (as of 2021)."}],"related":[],"places_in":[{"name":"Kathmandu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"},{"name":"Kathmandu Valley","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu-valley"},{"name":"Lalitpur, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lalitpur-nepal"},{"name":"Bhaktapur","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bhaktapur"},{"name":"2026 Nepal–Tibet floods","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/2026-nepaltibet-floods"},{"name":"Tribhuvan International Airport","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/tribhuvan-international-airport"},{"name":"Pashupatinath Temple","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/pashupatinath-temple"},{"name":"Boudha Stupa","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/boudha-stupa"},{"name":"Bharatpur, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bharatpur-nepal"},{"name":"Hetauda","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/hetauda"},{"name":"Nuwakot District","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/nuwakot-district"},{"name":"Rasuwa District","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/rasuwa-district"}],"nearby":[{"name":"Nagarkot","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/nagarkot","km":2.7},{"name":"Kailashnath Mahadev Statue","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kailashnath-mahadev-statue","km":6.5},{"name":"Changu Narayan Temple","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/changu-narayan-temple","km":7.3},{"name":"Changunarayan","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/changunarayan","km":7.3},{"name":"Banepa","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/banepa","km":7.6},{"name":"Bhaktapur Durbar Square","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/bhaktapur-durbar-square","km":7.7}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Bhaktapur_Durbar_Premises.jpg/960px-Bhaktapur_Durbar_Premises.jpg","width":640,"height":427,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Saroj Pandey","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhaktapur_Durbar_Premises.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Bagmati Province","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagmati_Province","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): बागमती प्रदेश","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B6","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q25104015","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104015","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Bhaktapur Durbar Premises.jpg by Saroj Pandey (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhaktapur_Durbar_Premises.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Bagmati Province, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Bhaktapur Durbar Premises.jpg — Saroj Pandey, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"Bagmati Province\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/bagmati-province. Retrieved 21 October 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-02T06:19:02Z","facts_checked":"2026-10-21","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/bagmati-province","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/bagmati-province","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/bagmati-province?lang=ne"}}