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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.
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.
Between 2000 and 2005, Nepal lost about 2,640 km 2 (1,019 sq mi) of forest. Nepal's 2000–2005 total deforestation rate was about 1.4% per year meaning it lost an average of 530 km 2 (205 sq mi) of forest annually. Nepal's total deforestation rate from 1990 to 2000 was 920 km 2 (355 sq mi) or 2.1% per year.
[1] [2] It has the Great Himalayas to the north and the Sivalik Hills to the south. It extends from the Indus River in Pakistan to the Brahmaputra Valley in North East India traversing across North India, Nepal and Bhutan. [3] The sub-range has an average elevation of 3,700–4,500 m (12,100–14,800 ft). [4]
About 800 km (500 mi) of this extent is in Nepal; the remainder includes Bhutan and parts of Pakistan, India, and China. Since 55 Ma the Himalayan orogeny beginning with the collision of Indian subcontinent and Eurasia at the Paleocene/Eocene epoch, [2] has thickened the Indian crust to its present thickness of 70 km (43 mi). [3]
Name Province Height Notes Ref(s) Amphu Labtsa pass: Koshi Province: 5,845 metres (19,177 ft) [1]Cho La Pass: 5,420 metres (17,782 ft) [2]Chiyo Bhanjyang
Satellite map of Koshi Province within Nepal. Koshi Province covers an area of 25,905 square kilometres (10,002 sq mi). [1] It is located at easternmost part of Nepal bordering by Tibet Autonomous Region of China in north Bagmati Province in west, Province No. 2 in south-west, Bihar of India in south, North Bengal of India in south-east and Sikkim of India in north-east.
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