Kakani is a Gaunpalika and former village development committee in Nuwakot District in Bagmati Province of central Nepal.

At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, the Kakani village development committee administered a population of 7816 living in 1343 individual households.

[1] As one of the most accessible settlements from Kathmandu over 2000 meters, this hill station hosts a British Gurkhas welfare bungalow[2] and a number of hotels.

With the assistance of a United Nations Development Programme project, a local farmers' cooperative now produces close to 250 000 kg of the fruit per year.

[3] For the easiness of local people Nepal Government have formed a Kakani Rural Municipality by collapsing the former Village development committee.