Tilaurakot
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Tilaurakot is a neighborhood in Kapilvastu Municipality in Kapilvastu District, in the Lumbini Province of southern Nepal. Previously it was a Village development committee. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5684 people living in 944 individual households. It is situated northwest of the Maya Devi Temple in Lumbini, and southeast of Nigali Sagar in Nigalihawa.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tilaurakot
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Archeological Site
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Suddhodana Palace-east gate.JPG
- Settlement.image_size
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- The east gate at the Tilaurakot archaeological site.
- Settlement.mapsize
- 300px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Map of the village development committees in Kapilvastu District
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nepal Lumbini Province#Nepal#South Asia
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- yes
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- top
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 280px
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Province
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Lumbini Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kapilvastu District
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
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- Suddhodana Palace-east gate.JPG
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Tilaurakot is a neighborhood in Kapilvastu Municipality in Kapilvastu District, in the Lumbini Province of southern Nepal. Previously it was a Village development committee. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5684 people living in 944 individual households. It is situated northwest of the Maya Devi Temple in Lumbini, and southeast of Nigali Sagar in Nigalihawa.
Tilaurakot may be the location of the ancient Shakyan city of Kapilavastu, where Gautama Buddha spent the first 29 years of his life. The site was listed as a UNESCO tentative site in 1996 by the Nepalese government.
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