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Prithvi Highway. The Prithvi Highway or NH04 (previously: H04 ) ( Nepali: पृथ्वी राजमार्ग) is a 174-kilometre-long (108 mi) highway connecting Naubise of Tribhuvan Highway, 26 km from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and Prithivi Chowk, Pokhara, a tourist city in the western part of Nepal. [ 1]
Pokhara Airport ( Nepali: पोखरा विमानस्थल, IATA: VNPK) is a domestic airport serving Pokhara in Nepal. Pokhara Airport will be gradually replaced by Nepal's third international airport, Pokhara International Airport, in 2023. [4] While most operations were transferred to the new airport on 1 January 2023, the STOL ...
On 5 September 1999, a BAe 748-501 Super 2B operating as Necon Air Flight 128 from Pokhara to Kathmandu, crashed while approaching Tribhuvan International Airport. The aircraft collided with a communication tower of Nepal Telecommunication Corporation and crashed in a wooded area 25 km west of Kathmandu. All 10 passengers and 5 crew were killed ...
Pokhara ( Nepali: पोखरा [ˈpokʰʌɾa]) is a metropolitan city located in central Nepal, which serves as the capital of Gandaki Province and is declared as the tourism capital of Nepal. [ 4] It is the second most populous city of the nation after Kathmandu, with 599,504 inhabitants living in 120,594 households as of 2021. [ 3]
The idea of constructing an international airport in Pokhara was first proposed in 1971. [6] In 1976, the Government of Nepal acquired land for the project. [7] In 1989, the Japan International Cooperation Agency conducted a feasibility study. [8]
Yeti Airlines Flight 691. / 28.19750°N 83.98500°E / 28.19750; 83.98500. Yeti Airlines Flight 691 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight flown by Yeti Airlines from Kathmandu to Pokhara in Nepal. On 15 January 2023, an ATR 72, the aircraft being operated on the route, stalled and crashed while landing at Pokhara with 68 passengers ...
These companies included Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa, which started direct Kathmandu-Frankfurt service in cooperation with RNAC in October 1987 and now, other airlines are also wanting to do so. At the time, Royal Nepal Airlines' network connected 38 domestic and 10 international destinations.
The district, with Gorkha Municipality (previously known as Prithvi Narayan Municipality) as its district headquarters, covers an area of 3,610 km 2 (1,390 sq mi) and has a population of 252,201, according to the 2021 Nepal census. Gorkha district is the site of the Manakamana Temple, [ 1] as well as Gorakhnath and Gorakh Kali temples.