Nepal Country Info - Asia

Description and Basic Information

Nepal with its capital Kathmandu is located in Asia (Southern Asia, between China and India). It covers some 140,801 square kilometres (slightly larger than Arkansas) with 29,519,000 citizens. Nepali and English are the some of the languages spoken by the majority in Nepal. It is charing borders with China and India.

Nepal is a landlocked country in Southern Asia, between the Tibet autonomous region of China and India. It contains eight of the world's 10 highest peaks, including Mount Everest - the world's tallest - on the border with Tibet, and Lumbini, the birth place of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. A total of 101,320 trekkers visited Nepal in 2007. Out of total 60,237 (59.4%) visited Annapurna area while those visiting the Everest and Langtang regions accounted for 26,511 (26.5%) and 8,165 (8.1%) respectively. Ethno-tourism is increasingly popular in Nepal and is designed to maximize social and economic benefits to the local communities and minimize negative impacts to cultural heritage and the environment. Ethno-tourism is a specialized type of cultural tourism and can be defined as any excursion which focuses on the works of humans rather than nature, and attempts to give the tourist an understanding of the lifestyles of local people.

Pictures from Capital (Kathmandu)

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About Nepal

The terrain offers Tarai or flat river plain of the Ganges in south, central hill region, rugged Himalayas in north. The average density of population is about 209 per km². The climate in Nepal can be described as varying from cool summers and severe winters in north to subtropical summers and mild winters in south. Possible natural disasters include severe thunderstorms or flooding, landslides or drought and famine depending on the timing, intensity, and duration of the summer monsoons.

To reach someone in Nepal dial +977 prior to a number. There are 820,500 installed telephones. And there are 7,618,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".np". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 230V - 50Hz. The following list are the 14 regions/states in Nepal we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Nepalese population grew at a rate of 1.42% (or by 410,827 citizens). With 199,478 deaths and 649,390 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 1.55%. -39,085 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Nepal: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.