Nepal
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| Naitional motto: जननी जन्मभूमिश्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी(Devanāgarī) "Mither an Mitherland are Greater than Heaven" |
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.svg) Location o Nepal (Green)
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| Offeecial leid | Nepal | ||||
| Caipital | Kathmandu | ||||
| Lairgest ceety | caipital | ||||
| Govrenment Heid o State - Prime Meenister - |
Republic Preses Ram Baran Yadav Baburam Bhattarai (interim) |
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| Area | 147,181 km2 (56,827 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | 29,331,000 | ||||
| Foondin | Kinrick declared 21 September 1768 State declared 15 Januar 2007 Republic declared 28 Mey 2008 |
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| Siller | Nepalese rupee (NPR) | ||||
| Time zone | NPT (UTC+5:45) | ||||
| Naitional anthem | "Sayaun Thunga Phool Ka" | ||||
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| Internet TLD | .np | ||||
| Cawin code | +977 | ||||
Nepal (pronounced /nɛˈpɔːl/ Template:Respell[1] Nepali:नेपाल Template:IPAudio), offeecially the Federal Democratic Republic o Nepal, is a landlockt kintra in Sooth Asie. It is locatit in the Himalayas an bordered tae the north bi the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, an tae the sooth, east, an west bi the Republic o Indie. Wi an aurie o 147,181 square kilometres (56,827 sq mi) an a population o approximately 30 million, Nepal is the warld's 93rd lairgest kintra b land mass[2] an the 41st maist populous kintra. Kathmandu is the naition's caipital an the kintra's lairgest metropolis.
Nepal haes a rich geography. The muntainous north haes aicht o the warld's ten tallest muntains, includin the hichtest point on Earth, Munt Everest, cawed Sagarmatha in Nepali. It contains mair than 240 peaks ower 20,000 ft (6,096 m) abuin sea level.[3] The fertile an humid sooth is heavily urbanized.
Bi some measures, Hinduism is practised bi a lairger majority o fowk in Nepal than in ony ither naition.[4] Buddhism, though a minority faith in the kintra, is linkt historically wi Nepal as the birthplace o the Buddha. There are 3 different buddhist traditions: Himalayan Buddhism, Buddhism o Kathmandu Valley (maistly Mahayana an Vajrayana), an an aa the Theravada Buddhism.
Aboot half o the population live belaw the internaitional poverty line o $1.25 a day.[5]
A monarchy throughoot maist o its history, Nepal wis ruled bi the Shah dynasty o keengs frae 1768, when Prithvi Narayan Shah unified its mony sma kinricks. In 2006, housomeivver, a decade-lang Fowkrevolution bi the Communist Pairty o Nepal (Maoist) alang wi several weeks o mass protests bi aw major political pairties o Nepal culminated in a peace accord, an the ensuin elections for the constituent assembly votit owerwhelmingly in favor o the abdication o the last Nepali monarch Gyanendra Shah an the establishment o a federal democratic republic in 28 Mey 2008.[6] The first Preses o Nepal, Ram Baran Yadav, wis sworn in on 23 Julie 2008.
[edit] Notes
- ↑ Template:OED
- ↑ The World Factbook : Rank order population. CIA.
- ↑ Shaha (1992), p. 1.
- ↑ CIA Factbook, Nepal, "People" section. Cia.gov. Retrieved on 29 Julie 2009. .
- ↑ Human Development Indices, Table 3: Human an income poverty, p. 34. Retrieved on 1 Juin 2009
- ↑ Nepal's first president sworn in. Radio Australia (24 July 2008).
