Talk:Kathmandu
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We are a group of students and just amazed how Kathmandu has grown during last 4 years. Thus the change we just made in the population figure of the whole Kathmandu valley. -- Greeting from Kathmandu!
I am reverting anon's changing the description of the sculpture as being of "Kali" as being of "Bhairav". I am doing this because "Kali" is how the National Geographic Magazine I got the image from describes it, and we have a Kali article, but at present none for Bhairav, and no articles link there. For all I know the old National Geographic may be wrong and the anon editor right; if so feel free to change it back, but some explanation would be appreciated, as would at least a start on an article about Bhairav, if appropriate. -- Infrogmation 19:42, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The sculpture is called in Nepali "Kalo Bhairab" ("Black Bhairav"); I believe National Geographic confused this with the name Kali. (There is another statue of Bhairav in the area called "Seto Bhairab" ["White Bhairav"].) A Google image search on "kalo bhairab" will pull up a couple of modern picture of this statue and Kerry Moran's "Nepal Handbook" (ISBN 0-918373-64-4) also identifies it as such.
Bhairav (in Hindi; Nepali Bhairab, Sanskrit Bhairava) is the name of the fearsome aspect of Shiva. --Anon
I've deleted the claim that Kathmandu was established in 764AD and added more detail on its history--P Funk 16:47, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Demographics
I don't know where the figure of 3.2 million comes from, but it is absolutely wrong. The city of Kathmandu has roughly 800,000 people, the city of Lalitpur (Patan) 200,000. Last year I listed all Nepali cities with recent population figures in Wikipedia, but it disappeared, so I'm writing these figures from memory. There are a number of smaller cities and communities in the Valley that make up the metropolitain area, such as Bhaktapur (70,000), Madyapur-Thimi and Kirtipur, both under 50,000. Even with all the many smaller places, that never adds up to 3 million! One could draw the cicle around Kathmandu larger and perhaps add Banepa, Panauti and Dhulikhel, but that hardly adds another 100,000. While I'm at it, the maps don't quite depict the sizes of Nepali cities correctly. Biratnagar still is the 2. or 3. largest city in the country, but it is marked as a smaller place than e.g. Hetauda. Rony Liebheit, Stuttgart, Germany
[edit] Who over said this?
Never in the history of the entire country Kathmandu been known as Lalitpur. Patan is still known as Lalitpur even today. Merishi 07:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] what about the company?
There is a company called Kathmandu which doesn't appear to have any reference. Should that be included in this page or should there be a disambiguation page? Cigale 22:33, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
- No. Looks like a non-remarkable company.Billlion 07:39, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] I coud not agree on the figure on air pollution in Kathmandu
"The PM10 levels in Kathmandu have seen a three-fold increase in the last decade."
The report also mentioned that PM10 levels are 148 micrograms per cubic meter. If we take this as PM10 concentration for today, we should have last decade's figure as 50 micrograms per cubic meter. But previous data does not suggest this.
Actually, the monitoring methodology during a study in last decade and now is totally defferent. We can not compare the data like this.
Please make changes in the document. Anil 10:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
