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The Himalayan country named Nepala with its capital in Kathmandu Valley was well-known in the Indian sub-continent by at least 2,500 years ago. Historical discussions on the etymology of Nepal incorporated elements of Hindu and Buddhist History. The origin of the term Nepal is an area of ongoing investigation. Multiple hypotheses have been put ...
At 2.16 per 100,000 in 2016, Nepal's intentional homicide rate is much lower than average; police data indicates a steady increase in the crime rate in recent years. [149] Nepal was ranked 76 out of 163 countries in the Global Peace Index (GPI) in 2019. [150] Nepal's passport has consistently been ranked among the weakest in the world. [151]
The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Dhaka is accredited to Nepal whereas the Nepalese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur is accredited to Indonesia. [1] [2] Both Nepal and Indonesia are founding member of NAM. Nepal was a participant in Bandung Conference of 1955 which paved the way for formation of NAM.
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas , but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain . It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north , and India to the south, east, and west , while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by ...
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.
According to ICIMOD figures from 2010, 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 of the country. [26] Most of this forest cover is broadleaved closed and open forest, which covers 21,200 km 2 or 14.4% of the geographical area.
The valleys of Nepal (Nepali: नेपालका उपत्यकाहरू) are situated in three physiographic regions: Terai, Hilly, and Himal. [1] As Nepal is landlocked by India on three sides and China's Tibet Autonomous Region to the north, much of its population is concentrated in valleys and lowlands. [2]
The term Nusantara derives from a combined two words of Austronesian and Sanskrit origin, the word nūsa (see also nusa) meaning "island" in Old Javanese, is ultimately derived from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian word *nusa with the same meaning, [12] and the word antara is a Javanese loanword borrowed from Sanskrit अन्तरा (antarā) meaning "between" or "in the middle", [13] thus ...