Suryabinayak

Suryabinayak Municipality is a municipality in Bhaktapur District, Bagmati Province, in central Nepal, forming part of the urban area of the Kathmandu Valley. It is known for religious and cultural sites such as the Suryavinayak Temple, from which it takes its name, the Doleshwar Mahadev Temple and the Kailashnath Mahadev Statue at Sanga, and for hotels and resorts in the Sanga area. The municipality was created in December 2014 by merging the village development committees of Kautunje, Sipadol, Nankhel and Chitpol, with Kautunje as its centre. In March 2017 it was enlarged to include the former Anantalingeshwor municipality and the committees of Sirutar, Gundu, Dadhikot and Balkot. Roads link it to Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Dhulikhel and Panauti, and the 2021 census counted 140,085 people in the area it now covers.