diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 50fb12b7d..7db3666a1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Validator                               | Description
 **isMagnetURI(str)**                      | check if the string is a [magnet uri format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme).
 **isMD5(str)**                          | check if the string is a MD5 hash.
 **isMimeType(str)**                     | check if the string matches to a valid [MIME type](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_type) format
-**isMobilePhone(str [, locale [, options]])**          | check if the string is a mobile phone number,<br/><br/>(locale is either an array of locales (e.g `['sk-SK', 'sr-RS']`) OR one of `['ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-IQ', ar-JO', 'ar-KW', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TN', 'be-BY', 'bg-BG', 'bn-BD', 'cs-CZ', 'de-DE', 'de-AT', 'da-DK', 'el-GR', 'en-AU', 'en-CA', 'en-GB', 'en-GG', 'en-GH', 'en-HK', 'en-IE', 'en-IN',  'en-KE', 'en-MT', 'en-MU', 'en-NG', 'en-NZ', 'en-RW', 'en-SG', 'en-UG', 'en-US', 'en-TZ', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'en-PK', 'es-EC', 'es-ES', 'es-MX', 'es-PA', 'es-PY', 'es-UY', 'et-EE', 'fa-IR', 'fi-FI', 'fj-FJ', 'fr-FR', 'fr-GF', 'fr-GP', 'fr-MQ', 'fr-RE', 'he-IL', 'hu-HU', 'id-ID', 'it-IT', 'ja-JP', 'kk-KZ', 'ko-KR', 'lt-LT', 'ms-MY', 'nb-NO', 'nl-BE', 'nl-NL', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-PT', 'pt-BR', 'ro-RO', 'ru-RU', 'sl-SI', 'sk-SK', 'sr-RS', 'sv-SE', 'th-TH', 'tr-TR', 'uk-UA', 'vi-VN', 'zh-CN', 'zh-HK', 'zh-TW']` OR defaults to 'any'. If 'any' or a falsey value is used, function will check if any of the locales match).<br/><br/>`options` is an optional object that can be supplied with the following keys: `strictMode`, if this is set to `true`, the mobile phone number must be supplied with the country code and therefore must start with `+`. Locale list is `validator.isMobilePhoneLocales`.
+**isMobilePhone(str [, locale [, options]])**          | check if the string is a mobile phone number,<br/><br/>(locale is either an array of locales (e.g `['sk-SK', 'sr-RS']`) OR one of `['ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-IQ', ar-JO', 'ar-KW', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TN', 'be-BY', 'bg-BG', 'bn-BD', 'cs-CZ', 'de-DE', 'de-AT', 'da-DK', 'el-GR', 'en-AU', 'en-CA', 'en-GB', 'en-GG', 'en-GH', 'en-HK', 'en-IE', 'en-IN',  'en-KE', 'en-MT', 'en-MU', 'en-NG', 'en-NZ', 'en-RW', 'en-SG', 'en-UG', 'en-US', 'en-TZ', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'en-PK', 'es-EC', 'es-ES', 'es-MX', 'es-PA', 'es-PY', 'es-UY', 'et-EE', 'fa-IR', 'fi-FI', 'fj-FJ', 'fr-FR', 'fr-GF', 'fr-GP', 'fr-MQ', 'fr-RE', 'he-IL', 'hu-HU', 'id-ID', 'it-IT', 'ja-JP', 'kk-KZ', 'ko-KR', 'lt-LT', 'ms-MY', 'nb-NO', 'ne-NP', 'nl-BE', 'nl-NL', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-PT', 'pt-BR', 'ro-RO', 'ru-RU', 'sl-SI', 'sk-SK', 'sr-RS', 'sv-SE', 'th-TH', 'tr-TR', 'uk-UA', 'vi-VN', 'zh-CN', 'zh-HK', 'zh-TW']` OR defaults to 'any'. If 'any' or a falsey value is used, function will check if any of the locales match).<br/><br/>`options` is an optional object that can be supplied with the following keys: `strictMode`, if this is set to `true`, the mobile phone number must be supplied with the country code and therefore must start with `+`. Locale list is `validator.isMobilePhoneLocales`.
 **isMongoId(str)**                      | check if the string is a valid hex-encoded representation of a [MongoDB ObjectId][mongoid].
 **isMultibyte(str)**                    | check if the string contains one or more multibyte chars.
 **isNumeric(str [, options])**                      | check if the string contains only numbers.<br/><br/>`options` is an object which defaults to `{no_symbols: false}`. If `no_symbols` is true, the validator will reject numeric strings that feature a symbol (e.g. `+`, `-`, or `.`).
diff --git a/lib/isMobilePhone.js b/lib/isMobilePhone.js
index bdb66e8df..15862579d 100644
--- a/lib/isMobilePhone.js
+++ b/lib/isMobilePhone.js
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ var phones = {
   'lt-LT': /^(\+370|8)\d{8}$/,
   'ms-MY': /^(\+?6?01){1}(([0145]{1}(\-|\s)?\d{7,8})|([236789]{1}(\s|\-)?\d{7}))$/,
   'nb-NO': /^(\+?47)?[49]\d{7}$/,
+  'ne-NP': /^(\+?977)?9[78]\d{8}$/,
   'nl-BE': /^(\+?32|0)4?\d{8}$/,
   'nl-NL': /^(\+?31|0)6?\d{8}$/,
   'nn-NO': /^(\+?47)?[49]\d{7}$/,
diff --git a/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js b/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
index 7b4f04675..df071c115 100644
--- a/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
+++ b/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ const phones = {
   'lt-LT': /^(\+370|8)\d{8}$/,
   'ms-MY': /^(\+?6?01){1}(([0145]{1}(\-|\s)?\d{7,8})|([236789]{1}(\s|\-)?\d{7}))$/,
   'nb-NO': /^(\+?47)?[49]\d{7}$/,
+  'ne-NP': /^(\+?977)?9[78]\d{8}$/,
   'nl-BE': /^(\+?32|0)4?\d{8}$/,
   'nl-NL': /^(\+?31|0)6?\d{8}$/,
   'nn-NO': /^(\+?47)?[49]\d{7}$/,
diff --git a/test/validators.js b/test/validators.js
index f78edf980..649148a18 100644
--- a/test/validators.js
+++ b/test/validators.js
@@ -4599,6 +4599,25 @@ describe('Validators', () => {
           '66338855',
         ],
       },
+      {
+        locale: ['ne-NP'],
+        valid: [
+          '+9779817385479',
+          '+9779717385478',
+          '+9779862002615',
+          '+9779853660020',
+        ],
+        invalid: [
+          '12345',
+          '',
+          'Vml2YW11cyBmZXJtZtesting123',
+          '+97796123456789',
+          '+9771234567',
+          '+977981234',
+          '4736338855',
+          '66338855',
+        ],
+      },
       {
         locale: 'vi-VN',
         valid: [