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Prithvi Narayan Shah

1723 - 1775

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Prithvi Narayan Shah (Nepali: श्री ५ बडामहाराजाधिराज पृथ्वीनारायण शाह देव, romanized: Shri Panch Badamaharajadhiraj Prithvi Narayan Shah Dev; 7 January 1723 – 11 January 1775), was the last king of the Gorkha Kingdom and first king of the Kingdom of Nepal (also called the Kingdom of Gorkha). Prithvi Narayan Shah started the unification of Nepal. He is also credited for moving the royal seat of power to Kathmandu. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prithvi Narayan Shah has received more than 1,268,515 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Prithvi Narayan Shah is the 4,804th most popular politician (up from 6,543rd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Nepal (up from 12th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Nepalese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prithvi Narayan Shah ranks 4,804 out of 19,576. Before him are Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Katalin Novák, Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, Otto V, Duke of Bavaria, Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, and Calpurnia. After him are Yael Dayan, Nicolae Iorga, Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa, Helen Clark, Ablai Khan, and Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Prithvi Narayan Shah ranks 8. Before him are Baron d'Holbach, Frederick V of Denmark, Joshua Reynolds, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Carl Friedrich Abel, and Adam Ferguson. After him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute. Among people deceased in 1775, Prithvi Narayan Shah ranks 5. Before him are Yemelyan Pugachev, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, Empress Xiaoyichun, and Giovanni Battista Sammartini. After him are Paul of the Cross, Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, Zahir al-Umar, Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, François-Hubert Drouais, and Ahmad Shah Bahadur.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Prithvi Narayan Shah ranks 8 out of 59. Before him are Tenzing Norgay (1914), Yaśodharā (-600), Maya (-600), Rāhula (-534), Śuddhodana (-590), and Mahapajapati Gotami (-600). After him are Birendra of Nepal (1945), Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), Chandra Bahadur Dangi (1939), Ram Baran Yadav (1948), Bhanubhakta Acharya (1814), and Janaka (null).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nepal

Among politicians born in Nepal, Prithvi Narayan Shah ranks 3. Before him are Yaśodharā (-600), and Śuddhodana (-590). After him are Birendra of Nepal (1945), Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), Ram Baran Yadav (1948), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), Ram Chandra Poudel (1944), Pushpa Kamal Dahal (1954), Mahendra of Nepal (1920), Tribhuvan of Nepal (1906), and Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (1980).

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