Give information about development of Kathmandu.
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The entire Himalayan region has been undergoing significant socio-economic changes in the last five decades [1,2]. However, the pace and ways some major cities in the foothills of Himalayas have transformed in the recent decades are unprecedented, raising sustainability concerns [3,4]. The Kathmandu Valley (KV) epitomizes this extraordinary urban growth occurring in the Himalayas. Located in the central hills of Nepal Himalayas, Kathmandu is the capital city of Nepal, and it combines with the Lalitpur and Bhaktapur metropolitan areas, along with several other smaller cities and towns to form the KV as a cosmopolitan and sprawling valley. This valley has been experiencing several new environmental challenges in the recent decades, such as traffic congestion, air pollution, declining water table, and loss of open space . The impacts of rapid urbanization in the Himalayan cities, particularly sprawl and other types of pell-mell urban growth, go beyond the urban footprints. Monitoring of land use and land cover (LULC) in these cities, therefore, is not only a pragmatic way to detect and quantify landscape-level transformation, but also a window to understanding the complex social-ecological relationships in the region characterized by its fragility and sensitivity to hazards and disaster, such as earthquakes, landslides.
Nepal is recorded as one of the top ten fastest urbanizing countries in the world . The 2011 census recorded the population of the KV alone at one million and is projected to double by 2030 . The population growth in newly developed peri-urban areas is significantly higher when compared to the historic urban core of the valley. According to Muzzini & Aparicio , in 2011, annual population growth was high in the peripheral municipalities of Kirtipur (5%) and Madhyapur Thimi (5.7%). The growth of population and the rapid expansion of built-up area in recent decades have caused a substantial LULC change in KV. With 3.94% urban growth rate between 2010 and 2014, the KV is going through significant transformation of its landscapes in recent years making it important to understand the dynamics of LULC change processes, including their interactions with local and regional environmental change
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Kathmandu is also the largest metropolis in the Himalayan hill region Nepali is the most spoken language in the city.... Kathmandu is and has been for many years the centre of Nepal history,art, culture and economy it has A multiethnic population within a Hindu and Buddhist majority
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