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  2. Geography of Nepal - Wikipedia

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    The Terai region, covering 17% of Nepal's area, is a lowland region with some hill ranges and is culturally more similar to parts of India. The Hilly region, encompassing 68% of the country's area, consists of mountainous terrain without snow and is inhabited by various indigenous ethnic groups.

  3. List of mountains in Nepal - Wikipedia

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    North of the Greater Himalayas in western Nepal, ~6,100 metre Tibetan Border Ranges form the Ganges-Brahmaputra divide, which the international border generally follows. . South of the Greater Himalayas, Nepal has a High Mountain region of ~4,000 metre summits, then the Middle Hills and Mahabharat Range with 1,500 to 3,000 metre su

  4. List of Himalayan peaks and passes - Wikipedia

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    On the Nepal-Tibet border at the upper end of Mustang. The Kali Gandaki Gorge (a graben ), [ 13 ] transects the main Himalaya and Transhimalayan ranges. Kora La is the lowest pass through both ranges between K2 and Everest , but some 300 metres (980 ft) higher than Nathula and Jelepla passes further east between Sikkim and Tibet

  5. Geology of Nepal - Wikipedia

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    The Sub-Himalayan Sequence borders the Indo-Gangetic Floodplain along the Himalayan Frontal Fault and is dominated by thick Late Tertiary mollassic deposits known as the Siwaliks that resulted from the accumulating fluvial deposits on the southern front of the evolving Himalaya. In Nepal, it extends throughout the country from east to west in ...

  6. Himalayas - Wikipedia

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    The Himalayan region with the associated Indo-Gangetic Plain and Tibetan plateau is home to more than a billion people. [90] In 2011, the population in the Himalayan region was estimated to be about 52.8 million with the combined drainage basin of the Himalayan rivers home to nearly 600 million.

  7. Nepal - Wikipedia

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    Most of the subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest of the lower Himalayan region is descended from the Tethyan Tertiary flora. [102] As the Indian Plate collided with Eurasia forming and raising the Himalayas, the arid and semi-arid Mediterranean flora was pushed up and adapted to the more alpine climate over the next 40–50 million years.

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