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Historians say
At 1,585 m, 294 km2 city and 766 km2 metro, population 1.18 million at the 2011 census. NAMED FOR LAKSHMI. The second-largest metropolitan area in the Himalayas after Kathmandu, and a UNESCO Creative City for crafts and folk arts since 2021.