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Definition of all Film Industries: Movie-woods 

Hollywood  

Hollywood  is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States (yes, it’s not a movie industry in itself, as believed popularly). The place situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles, got it’s cultural identity as the center of movie studios and movie stars when movie making activities increased in the early 20th century.
In the modern time, Hollywood has become an iconic name to represent the US movie industry. The success of Hollywood movies has inspired other film industries to nickname themselves with Hollywood-inspired names.

India has the largest share of names after Hollywood to represent the local movie industries. Although, many names like Bollywood are popular worldwide, others haven’t gained much popularity. Lets, list the name: 

Indian Film Industries

Bollywood - After Hollywood, Indian movie industry is considered to the biggest in the world. The largest part in the Indian movie industry is located in Mumbai, popularly known as Bollywood – an amalgamation of Bombay and Hollywood. 

Tollywood - Telugu Film Industry (more popular) but, it was originally termed for West Bengal Film industry after Tollygunj and Bollywood in 1932 by Wilford E. Deming in American Cinematographer. The name is referred to as the first Hollywood inspired name.

Kollywood - Kollywood a portmanteau of the words Kodambakkam, an area of Chennai, where Tamil language feature films are produced, and Hollywood. Kollywood West refer to Tamil movies produced in western countries and the term Kollywood South refer to Tamil movies made in Singapore, Sri Lanka and India.

Ollywood - Oriya Film Industry in India.

Mollywood - The term refers to the Mlayalam film industry in India.
Punjwood - Punjabi language movie industry in India
Sandalwood - Kannada language film industry in Karnataka, India
Sollywood - Sindh language movie industry in India.

Dhollywood – is the Gujarati film industry in India.

Chollywood - Peruvian film industry. 

Pakistani Film Industries

 

Lollywood - Pakistani Film Industry, named for Lahore, Pakistan based movies. The word was first coined in 1989 by a gossip columnist Saleem Nasir.

Kariwood - Karachi film industry – named after Pakistani capital Karachi.
Pollywood - Pasthu film industry in Peshawar, Pakistan. 

Others Film Industries (Around the World)

Dhallywood (Dhaliwood) - Bangladeshi film industry; a portmanteau of the words Dhaka and Hollywood 

Kabulwood - represents Afghan Cinema. 
Hollywood North – the film industry in Canada, specifically Vancouver and Toronto is termed Hollywood North. The term has been in use to describe Canadian film and television production since the late 1970s 
Hollywood of the East – Egypt movie industry

Wellywood – Cinema of Wellington New Zealand

Nollywood – Cinema of Nigeria 
Sollywood – South Africa Film Industry (Coined in 2010) 
Apart from the US and India, other parts of the world are also obsessed by the word Hollywood: 
Bulawood - Fiji film industry. The word Bula is a word of greeting in Fijian language. +Hollywood). 

Nepalwood or a Nellywood would be simple and easiest alternative to represent Nepali movie industry.

It is clear, we can’t claim Kollywood to be Kathmandu movie industry when it is an already well established name to represent something else. A name Nollywood (for Nepal + Hollywood) is also taken, so is Pollywood (Pokhara Kollywood (Nepal) is also referred sometimes as movies made in the capital, Kathmandu, Nepal.