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t. e. A map of the Himalayan region forcefully annexed by Gorkha Kings around 1768 as per the book published in 1819 by Francis Hamilton M. D. named "An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal and the Territories annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha". Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multiracial, multicultural, multi-religious, and multilingual country.
Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural state, with Nepalias the official language. The name "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic periodof the Indian subcontinent, the era in ancient Nepalwhen Hinduismwas founded, the predominant religion of the country.
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 ...
British Indian Empire in The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909. British India is shaded pink, the princely states yellow.. The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.
Ancient history of Nepal. The earliest inhabitants of modern Nepal and adjoining areas are believed to be Australoid people. [citation needed] By 4000 BCE, the Tibeto-Burmese people had reached Nepal either directly across the Himalayas from Tibet or via Myanmar and north-east India or both. [1] By the late Vedic period, Nepal was being ...
Nepal's Terai stretches over 33,998.8 km 2 (13,127.0 sq mi), about 23.1% of Nepal's land area, and lies at an elevation of between 67 and 300 m (220 and 984 ft). The region comprises more than 50 wetlands. North of the Terai rises the Bhabar, a narrow but continuous belt of forest about 8–12 km (5.0–7.5 mi) wide. [ 2 ]
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Outline of Nepal. Nepal is a landlocked sovereign state in South Asia. The country is bordered to the north by China, and to the south, east, and west by India. The Himalayas in the country's northern region has eight of the world's ten highest mountains, including Mount Everest, called Sagarmatha in Nepali.