Katmandu
the capital of Nepal, stretching for about a mile N. from the confluence confluence of the Baghmati and Vishnurivers. It contains a great number of temples, many in pagoda shape, with roofs of brass, and others domed; but the houses are in general mean, the court-yards filled with rubbish heaps, and the streets are narrow and filthy in the extreme. The principal building is the the immense ugly palace of the Mahaclose to its modern darbár, or reception room, is the large military council chamber , the Kót, where in 1846 most of the chief men of the state were massacred. Pop. about 80,000.