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Village of Chandragiri Municipality in No. 3, Nepal

Satungal

Satungal is a village, formerly a Village Development Committee, in the Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No.

The place

Satungal is a village, formerly a Village Development Committee, in the Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 in central Nepal. At the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,730 people living in 464 households.

At the 2001 Nepal census the population was 5,834, spread over 1,375 households. At that time 5,173 of the village population were literate, a literacy rate of 88.7%, which was one of the highest in Nepal at that time.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Satungal

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Tribhuvan University

    Tribhuvan University is a public university located in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal. Established in 1959, TU is the oldest and the largest university in Nepal.

    3.3 km · public university in Kathmandu, Nepal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground

    The Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, also known as TU International Cricket Ground or TU Cricket Ground, is an international cricket ground in Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, within the premises of Tribhuvan University.

    4 km · Cricket Ground in Kathmandu, Nepal · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bagh Bhairab Temple

    Bagh Bhairab Temple is a historic Hindu temple dedicated to Bagh Bhairab, an incarnation of Shiva as a tiger. It is located in Kirtipur, Bagmati Province, Nepal and dates back to the 16th century.

    2.6 km · HIndu temple in Kirtipur, Kathmandu · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tribhuvan University Central Library

    Tribhuvan University Central Library is an academic library. It is the largest public library in Nepal.

    3.2 km · public library in Nepal · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Matatirtha Temple

    Matatirtha Temple is a Hindu temple in Matatirtha, Chandragiri Municipality, Nepal. The temple is famous for the Matatirtha Aunsi festival, a day to honour mothers and motherhood.

    1.9 km · Hindu temple in Nepal · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Satungal

Airports
Tribhuvan (KTM), 11 km · Pokhara (PHH), 134 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 182 km
  • Pokhara → Satungal
    141 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · ₨710–950
  • Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Satungal
    178 km · quickest by road, 4h 43m · ₨910–1,220
  • Siliguri → Satungal
    333 km · quickest by road, 7h 32m · ₹3,230–4,040
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Satungal

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Satungal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextVisit Kathmandu, perhaps as a day trip from the relative quiet of Kirtipur.

From Wikivoyage: Kirtipur, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    161 km
  2. 02
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    555 km
  3. 03
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    652 km
  4. 04
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    697 km
  5. 05
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    728 km

If you know how people move in Satungal – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Satungal

Satungal is 7 km from Kathmandu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.