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Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film) is a 1997 film based on the book of the same name written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer. Journey of a Red Fridge (2007), directed by Lucian and Natasa Muntean ( Lunam Docs ), is a documentary that tells the story of child porters working in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal .
[2] [3] In terms of area, Pokhara is the largest metropolitan city covering a subtotal of 464.28 km 2 [4] while Lalitpur is the smallest, with an area of 36.12 km 2. Ghorahi is the largest sub-metropolitan city with an area of 522.21 km 2 where as Dhangadhi is the largest sub-metropolitan city by a population of 204,788.
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Cities are listed alphabetically by their current best-known name in English. The English version is followed by variants in other languages, in alphabetical order by name including any historical variants and former names. Foreign names that are the same as their English equivalents may be listed. Note: The blue asterisks generally indicate ...
Riyadh: The city's name is derived from the Arabic word رياض riyadh, which means "gardens", plural of "rawdha" روضة. particularly those formed in the desert after rains. Jiddah: There are at least two explanations for the etymology of the name Jeddah, according to Jeddah Ibn Helwaan Al-Qudaa'iy, the chief of the Quda'a clan.
The term Himalayan states is used to group countries that straddle the Himalayas. It primarily denotes Bhutan , China , India , Nepal , and Pakistan ; some definitions also include Afghanistan and Myanmar .
The city is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world, founded in the 2nd century AD. [6] The valley was historically called the Nepal Mandala (the name for the cosmic elements of water Dha mandala in Newari, and cosmos), and has been the home of the Newar people, a cosmopolitan urban civilization in the Himalayan foothills.
Gangtok (Nepali: gāntok, Sikkimese: [ɡaŋt̪ʰòk]) is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Sikkim.The seat of eponymous district, Gangtok is in the eastern Himalayan range, at an elevation of 1,650 m (5,410 ft).