List of cities in Nepal

Along with other major criteria as mentioned in Local Governance Act 2017 of Nepal, the population size to be considered as the municipality: the minimum population in mountainous districts should be 10,000 while hilly districts, inner terai districts, terai districts, and Kathmandu valley should include forty thousand, fifty thousand, seventy thousand and one hundred thousand respectively. For sub-metropolitan, the population should be two hundred thousand, and it should be five hundred thousand for metropolitan. The list includes the cities and not urban agglomerations. The Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration has classified the local units into four grades based on infrastructure and social development. The cities listed in bold are the capitals of their respective provinces of Nepal. The city in bold and italics is the country capital. Metropolitan cities Sub-metropolitan cities Municipality == See also ==