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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 ...
Topographic map of Nepal. The geology of Nepal is dominated by the Himalaya, the highest, youngest and a very highly active mountain range.Himalaya is a type locality for the study of on-going continent-continent collision tectonics.
It provides topographic maps and data to meet the needs of the sustainable development of the nation. The Office of Spatial Data Management provides an online free map service MapConnect. [12] These topographic maps of scales 1:250,000 and 1:100,000 are available in printed form from the Sales Centre.
A topographic map of Nepal. Nepal is of roughly trapezoidal shape, about 800 kilometres (500 mi) long and 200 kilometres (120 mi) wide, with an area of 147,516 km 2 (56,956 sq mi). It lies between latitudes 26° and 31°N, and longitudes 80° and 89°E.
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point. The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
"Salyan District" (PDF) (Map). Salyan District. From 1992 to 2002 a definitive series of large scale topographic maps were surveyed and published through a joint project by Government of Nepal Survey Department [12] and Finland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs contracting through the FinnMap consulting firm. [13]
including Topographic Map Series in different map scales France: Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN) National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN) ign.fr: Géoportail: Germany: Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy: bkg.bund.de: Geoportal.de
Nepal contains most of the Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world. Eight of the fourteen eight-thousanders are located in the country, either in whole or shared across a border with China or India. Nepal has the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest at an astonishing height of 8,848.86m as well as 1,310 peaks over 6,000 m height.