Tatopani, Sindhupalchok

Tatopani (Nepali: तातोपानी) is a village in Sindhupalchok District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 3402 and had 616 houses in the village. The majority people are of ethnic Sherpa and Tamang. Historically and today, it is a huge trading post between Nepal and China. People living here speak Nepali and Tibetan. There is an inactive volcano in there as well. Shrestha Bipin is the mayor in Tatopani. The actual border crossing is at Kodari. The village was visited by and served as a pitstop for the famous indian scholar and travelogue Rahul Sankrityayan multiple times on his way to Tibet.

Tatopani तातोपानी
Village development committee
Tatopani Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 27.98°N 85.93°E / 27.98; 85.93
Country	Nepal
Zone	Bagmati Zone
District	Sindhupalchok District
Population  (1991)
• Total	3,102
• Religions	Buddhist
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)

2015 Nepal earthquake

The village was affected by the earthquake on 25 April 2015. A joint coordination committee among all political parties in the three constituencies of the Sindhupalchok district was formed to carry out a rescue mission in the village.^[1] On 1 May, a Nepali Army rescue helicopter went 65 kilometres to Tatopani from Kathmandu to rescue 40 people.^[2]