Jagatpur is a small town of
Bharatpur Metropolitan City and former
village development committee in
Chitwan District
Chitwan District (, , ) is one of seventy-seven districts of Nepal, and takes up the southwestern corner of Bagmati Province. Bharatpur, largest city of Nepal after Kathmandu, is its administrative centre. It covers , and in 2011 had a popul ...
,
Bagmati Province
Bagmati Province (, ''Bāgmatī pradēśa'') is one of the seven Provinces of Nepal, provinces of Nepal established by the constitution of Nepal. Bagmati is Nepal's second-most populous province and fifth largest province by area. It is bordered ...
of
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 11,195 people (5,217 male; 5,978 female) living in 2,635 individual households.
Jagatpur is a fastest growing tourism town, lies on 20 km Northwest part of the district headquarters
Bharatpur and serves as a gateway for the thousands of internal and external tourist every year to famous adobe of the wildlife and headquarters of Chitwan National Park Kasara. The area with large number of luxurious hotels and natural beauties is a popular internal and external tourist destination from many years. Mainly, It is famous for exploring jungle on elephant rides seeing rare animals like one horned rhino and various species of wild cats. As a government crocodile breeding project and an old temple of Hindu God Bikram Baba inside the Chitwan National Park its quite famous among the locals. Furthermore, The National Park shares as direct inside route of another popular tourist town of the district Sauraha.
Geography and transportation
In addition to road access, Jagatpur has air connections through Bharatpur airport with regular daily air services from Pokhara and Kathmandu. The airport lies just 20 kilometer to the northeast of Jagatpur. Will need to change to bus or taxi for connection to Jagatpur.
By bus
Via Kathmandu: there are different types of buses available. You can find direct route bus in from kathmandu to Jagatpur as Local buses service from Narayani Transportation organization or you can take kathmandu-Bhartpur buses and change from Jagatpur Bus-park or Lions Chowk. And you will also find regular tourist buses
as direct route to Jagatpur.
Via Pokhara: direct tourist buses are available via
Mugling
Mugling (; sometimes known as Muglin) is a town in Chitwan, Bagmati Province, Nepal.
Mugling is located at an interchange of two majors highways: Prithvi and Madan Ashrit Highway (also known as Mugling-Narayanghat Highway). Before the 1970s, Mug ...
, Narayangarh / Bharatpur, Jagatpur; 3 – 4 hours.
Besides Kathmandu and Pokhara there is a direct route to Bharatpur/Narayangarh, for which you need to take another bus/taxi for Jagatpur either in Jagatpur(west chitwan bus park) bus park or in Lions Chowk.
References
Populated places in Chitwan District
Village development committees (Nepal)
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