Kathmandu

Nepal

Kathmandu is the capital and largest city of Nepal, situated in the central part of the country within the Kathmandu Valley. The city is in Kathmandu District. Kathmandu is the main governmental, financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Nepal. As per the 2021 Nepal census, it has a population of 845,767 residing in 105,649 households, with approximately 4 million people in the surrounding metropolitan area.

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Country: Nepal
Population: 895,000
Latitude: 27.72° N
Longitude: 85.31° E

Which way is Kathmandu from…

From Paris, Kathmandu lies at 76° to the east, 7,235 km as the crow flies.

Paris	76° east	7,235 km
London	75° east	7,331 km
New York	19° north	12,112 km
Madrid	69° east	7,979 km
Rome	79° east	6,633 km
Montreal	19° north	11,598 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	32° north-east	6,286 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

New York to Kathmandu: the compass says 19°, north, because the shortest route crosses Greenland and Russia before dropping towards the Himalayas. A flat map would say 96°, east. From London the gap is smaller but real: 110° on the map, 75° on the compass, for 7,331 km. Landmarks: New Delhi is 801 km to the west, Dhaka 676 km to the south-east.