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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.
Indo-Nepal border in the first political map of independent India in 1947 [e] A 1955 US Army map of the Byans region, with the Kalapani territory extending to the northeast A CIA map of the borders of Nepal, 1965, shows the Kalapani territory as part of India. In 1923, Nepal received recognition from the British as a completely independent ...
Indo-Nepal Border Road (Hindi: भारत नेपाल सीमा सड़क) is a highway approximately parallel to the international borders between India and Nepal which connects the border outposts (BOP) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) in India near the lines of the international border.
India shares land borders with six sovereign nations. The state's Ministry of Home Affairs also recognizes a 106 kilometres (66 mi) land border with a seventh nation, Afghanistan, as part of its claim on the Kashmir region; however, this is disputed and the region bordering Afghanistan has been administered by Pakistan as part of Gilgit-Baltistan since 1947 (see Durand Line).
The inhabitants of this region are mostly speakers of the Indo-Aryan languages and the Tibeto-Burman languages. [ 4 ] Some of the world's major transboundary rivers originate in the territory of the Himalayan states, including the Brahmaputra , the Ganges , the Indus , and the Irrawaddy .
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...
The territorial effects of the Treaty of Sugauli (1816) Map of Hindostan or India (1814) by Mathew Carey. The Treaty of Sugauli (also spelled Sugowlee, Sagauli and Segqulee), the treaty that established the boundary line of Nepal, was signed on 4 March 1816 between the East India Company and Guru Gajraj Mishra following the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814–16.
China–Nepal border; I. India–Nepal border; K. Kalapani territory This page was last edited on 20 March 2013, at 18:17 (UTC). Text is available under the ...