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A land cover map of Nepal using Landsat 30 m (2010) data. ICIMOD ’s first and most complete national land cover [ 24 ] database of Nepal prepared using public domain Landsat TM data of 2010 shows that show that forest is the dominant form of land cover in Nepal covering 57,538 km 2 with a contribution of 39.09% to the total geographical area ...
The Jaynagar–Janakpur–Bardibas railway line (Hindi/ Nepali: जयनगर–जनकपुर–बर्दिबास रेलवे) is a cross-border railway line between India and Nepal. [2] [3] The railway links Bijalpura with Jaynagar, crossing the India–Nepal border near Inarwa. [4] An extension to Bardibas is being ...
Close to the Indian border, it is a historic city of Hinduism. The city is believed to have been the capital city of King Janaka, the father-in-law of Lord Rama, the son of the then king of Ayodhya, Dasharatha. The city was then called 'Mithila Nagari'. The name of Janakpur area is related to the historic King Gedigad and his capital Janakpur.
Kathmandu, [a] officially the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, [b] is the seat of federal government and the most populous city in Nepal.As of the 2021 Nepal census, [3] there were 845,767 inhabitants living in 105,649 households and approximately 4 million people in its surrounding agglomeration.
Nepal lies in the Himalayas, where earthquake activity is associated with ongoing continental collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates. These plates converge at a rate of 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in) per year. The Indian plate is thrusted beneath the continental crust of the Eurasian plate, forming thrust faults along the collision zone.
The India–Nepal border is an open international boundary running between the republics of India and Nepal. The 1,751 km (1,088.02 mi) long border includes the Himalayan territories as well as Indo-Gangetic Plain of the subcontinent. [1] The current border was delimited after the Sugauli treaty of 1816 between Nepal and the British Raj.
The name "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic period of the Indian subcontinent, the era in ancient Nepal when Hinduism was founded, the predominant religion of the country. In the middle of the first millennium BC, Gautama Buddha , the founder of Buddhism , was born in Lumbini in southern Nepal.
Greater Nepal is an irredentist concept in Nepal, [1] which claims current Indian and Bangladeshi territories beyond Nepal's present-day boundaries. [2] These claims typically include the areas controlled by Nepal between 1791 and 1816, a period that ended with the Anglo-Nepalese War and the signing of Sugauli Treaty . [ 3 ]