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Nepal

Nepal is a landlocked country in the in . It has eight of the world's 10 highest peaks, including , the world's tallest, on the border with , as well as , the birthplace of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.
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Top destinations include Kathmandu and Lumbini.

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is the largest city and capital of Nepal and the namesake of the . Once thought to be the fabled and inaccessible Shangri-La, is a fast-growing spot catering to a wide range of holiday types and budgets.

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is the sacred site of the birth of Sakyamuni Buddha. It is located in southern Nepal, near the border and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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is the second largest city in Nepal with about 520,000 people in 2021. It is the starting point for most of the treks in the area. It is a very popular location with most people staying around the beautiful Fewa Lake.

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The constitute the northernmost region of Nepal. This part of the range includes eight of the world's ten highest peaks, including the world's tallest - .

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The is a region of 220 sq mi in central Nepal. It's home to three of the largest cities in Nepal, including Kathmandu itself, as well as hundreds of smaller towns and villages.

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The consists of the western part of the Tarai Mountain Range in Nepal.

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The consists of the eastern part of the Tarai Mountain Range in Nepal.

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The are a hill range in Nepal, split between the and the Mountain Range.

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The Terai or is a lowland region in parts of southern Nepal and northern that lies to the south of the outer foothills of the , the Sivalik Hills and north of the .

Nepal

  • Type: Country with 29,500,000 residents
  • Description: country in South Asia
  • Also known as: “Bal-bo”, “Bal-po’i yul”, “Bal-yul”, “Balbo”, “Balpo”, “Balpo-yul”, “Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal”, “Kingdom of Nepal”, “Naipál”, “Naipala”, “Naipála”, “Ne-pel”, “Necbal”, “Nehpal”, “Nei-pal”, “Nekbal”, “Nekpal”, “Népaal”, “Nepál”, “Népál”, “Nepal (Republic of)”, “Nepall”, “Nepaul”, “Nercerri”, “Ni-po-lo”, “Ni-po-louo”, “Niepal”, “Nipal”, “NP”, “Pa-eul-pou”, “Pa-le-pou”, “Pa-lo-pou”, “Pai-pou”, “Paï-pou”, “Palpa”, “Palpou”, “Sanghiya Loktantrik Ganatantratmak Nepāl”, and “State of Nepal”
  • Languages: Nepali and English
  • Neighbors: and
  • Categories: landlocked country, sovereign state, region, socialist state, people’s republic, federal republic, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
28° north
Longitude of center
84° east
Population
29,500,000
Area
140,800 km² (54,363 miles²)
Elevation
1,041 metres (3,415 feet)
Capital
Currency
Rupee (NPR)
Phone code
.np
Internet domain
977
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399402
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
1282988
Wiki­data ID
Q837
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Nepal” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Непал”
  • Achinese: “Nepal”
  • Achinese: “Nèpal”
  • Adyghe: “Непал”
  • Afrikaans: “Nepal”
  • Akan: “Nɛpɔl”
  • Albanian: “Nepal”
  • Albanian: “Nepali”
  • Amharic: “ኔፓል”
  • Amis: “Nepal”
  • Arabic: “النيبال”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية نيبال الديمقراطية الاتحادية”
  • Arabic: “نيبال”
  • Aragonese: “Nepal”
  • Aragonese: “República Federal Democrática de Nepal”
  • Armenian: “Նեպալ”
  • Armenian: “Նեպալի Դաշնային Ժողովրդավարական Հանրապետություն”
  • Arpitan: “Nèpal”
  • Assamese: “নেপাল”
  • Asturian: “Nepal”
  • Atayal: “Nepal”
  • Avaric: “Непал”
  • Awadhi: “नेपाल”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nepal”
  • Balinese: “Népal”
  • Bambara: “Nepali”
  • Banjar: “Nepal”
  • Bashkir: “Непал”
  • Basque: “Nepal”
  • Bavarian: “Nepal”
  • Belarusian: “Непал”
  • Belarusian: “Нэпал”
  • Bengali: “নেপাল”
  • Betawi: “Népal”
  • Bhojpuri: “नेपाल”
  • Bhojpuri: “सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल”
  • Bishnupriya: “নেপাল”
  • Bislama: “Nepal”
  • Bosnian: “Nepal”
  • Breton: “Nepal”
  • Bulgarian: “Непал”
  • Bulgarian: “Федеративна демократична република Непал”
  • Burmese: “နီပေါ”
  • Burmese: “နီပေါနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Nepal”
  • Catalan: “República Federal Democràtica del Nepal”
  • Cebuano: “Nepal”
  • Central Bikol: “Nepal”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیپال”
  • Chavacano: “Nepal”
  • Chechen: “Непал”
  • Chinese: “Nî-pô-lô”
  • Chinese: “Níbó’ěr”
  • Chinese: “Níbóěr”
  • Chinese: “尼泊尔 / 尼泊爾”
  • Chinese: “尼泊尔”
  • Chinese: “尼泊爾”
  • Chuvash: “Непал”
  • Cornish: “Nepal”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nepal”
  • Croatian: “Nepal”
  • Czech: “Nepál”
  • Czech: “Nepálská federativní demokratická republika”
  • Dagbani: “Nepal”
  • Danish: “Nepal”
  • Dhivehi: “ނޭޕާލް”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nepal”
  • Dotyali: “नेपाल”
  • Dutch: “Federale Democratische Republiek Nepal”
  • Dutch: “Nepal”
  • Dutch: “NP”
  • Dutch: “NPL”
  • Dzongkha: “བལ་ཡུལ་”
  • Dzongkha: “བལ་ཡུལ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Непал”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيبال”
  • Erzya: “Непал Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Federacia Demokratia Respubliko Nepalo”
  • Esperanto: “Nepalo”
  • Estonian: “Nepaal”
  • Estonian: “Nepal”
  • Estonian: “Nepali Demokraatlik Liitvabariik”
  • Ewe: “Nepal nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Nepal”
  • Faroese: “Nepal”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nepal”
  • Fijian: “Nepal”
  • Finnish: “Nepal”
  • Finnish: “Nepalin demokraattinen liittotasavalta”
  • French: “la République démocratique fédérale du Népal”
  • French: “NEP”
  • French: “Nepal”
  • French: “Népal”
  • French: “Nipal”
  • French: “np”
  • French: “NP”
  • French: “NPL”
  • French: “Paï-pou”
  • French: “République démocratique fédérale du Népal”
  • Fulah: “Nepaal”
  • Fulah: “Nepal”
  • Gagauz: “Nepal”
  • Galician: “Nepal”
  • Ganda: “Nepal”
  • Ganda: “Nepalo”
  • Georgian: “ნეპალი”
  • German: “Demokratische Bundesrepublik Nepal”
  • German: “Nepal”
  • German: “NPL”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Nepal”
  • Gilaki: “نپال”
  • Goan Konkani: “Nepal”
  • Goan Konkani: “नेपाळ”
  • Greek: “Νεπάλ”
  • Greek: “Ομοσπονδιακή Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία του Νεπάλ”
  • Guarani: “Nepal”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Népal”
  • Gujarati: “નેપાળ”
  • Haitian: “Nepal”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nepal”
  • Hausa: “Nefal”
  • Hausa: “Nepal”
  • Hawaiian: “Nepala”
  • Hebrew: “נפאל”
  • Hindi: “नेपाल”
  • Hindi: “सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल”
  • Hungarian: “Nepál”
  • Hungarian: “Nepáli Szövetségi Demokratikus Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Nepal”
  • Ido: “Nepal”
  • Igbo: “Nepal”
  • Iloko: “Nepal”
  • Inari Sami: “Nepal demokraatlâš littotäsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Nepal”
  • Indonesian: “Nepal”
  • Interlingua: “Nepal”
  • Interlingue: “Nepal”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓃᑉᐊᓐ”
  • Irish: “Neipeal”
  • Italian: “Nepal”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Nepal”
  • Japanese: “ネパール”
  • Japanese: “ネパール王国”
  • Japanese: “ネパール連邦民主共和国”
  • Japanese: “尼婆羅”
  • Javanese: “Népal”
  • Kabiyè: “Nepaalɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Nipal”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Nepal”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nepal”
  • Kalmyk: “Балвудин Улсин Ниицәтә Орн”
  • Kannada: “ನೇಪಾಳ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nepal”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Непал”
  • Kashmiri: “نیپال”
  • Kashmiri: “نؠپال”
  • Kashmiri: “नेपाल”
  • Kashubian: “Nepal”
  • Kazakh: “Непал”
  • Khmer: “នេប៉ាល់”
  • Kikuyu: “Nepal”
  • Kikuyu: “Nepali”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nepali”
  • Kirghiz: “Непал”
  • Komering: “Nepal”
  • Komi: “Непал”
  • Kongo: “Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal”
  • Kongo: “Nepal”
  • Korean: “네팔”
  • Kurdish: “Nepal”
  • Kurdish: “نیپال”
  • Ladin: “Nepal”
  • Ladino: “Nepal”
  • Lao: “ເນປານ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເນປານ”
  • Latin: “Nepalia”
  • Latvian: “Nepāla”
  • Lezghian: “Непал”
  • Ligurian: “Nepal”
  • Limburgan: “Nepal”
  • Lingala: “Nepálɛ”
  • Lingala: “Nepáli”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nepal”
  • Literary Chinese: “尼泊爾”
  • Lithuanian: “Nepalas”
  • Lithuanian: “Nepalo Federacinė Demokratinė Respublika”
  • Livvi: “Nepal”
  • Lojban: “nepal”
  • Lombard: “Nepal”
  • Low German: “Nepal”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Nepal”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Nepálɛ”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nepal”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nepal”
  • Macedonian: “Непал”
  • Madurese: “Nepal”
  • Maithili: “नेपाल”
  • Maithili: “सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल”
  • Malagasy: “Nepal”
  • Malagasy: “Nepala”
  • Malagasy: “Nepaly”
  • Malay: “Nepal”
  • Malay: “نيڤل”
  • Malayalam: “നേപ്പാൾ”
  • Malayalam: “ഫെഡറൽ ഡെമോക്രാറ്റിക് റിപ്പബ്ലിക് ഓഫ് നേപ്പാൾ”
  • Maltese: “in-Nepal”
  • Maltese: “Nepal”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Demokratika Federali tan-Nepal”
  • Manipuri: “ꯅꯦꯄꯥꯜ”
  • Manx: “Nepaal”
  • Maori: “Nepōra”
  • Marathi: “नेपाळ”
  • Mazanderani: “نپال”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nepal”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nepal”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nî-po̍h-ní”
  • Minangkabau: “Nepal”
  • Mingrelian: “ნეპალი”
  • Mirandese: “Nepal”
  • Moksha: “Нэпал”
  • Mongolian: “Балба”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيپال”
  • Nauru: “Nepar”
  • Navajo: “Dziłghą́ąʼdi Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “Nepāl”
  • Nepali: “Sańghīya Loktāntrik Gaṇatantra Nepāl”
  • Nepali: “नेपाल”
  • Nepali: “स‌ंघिय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल”
  • Nepali: “संघिय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्रात्मक नेपाल”
  • Nepali: “संघीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल”
  • Newari: “नेपाः”
  • North Ndebele: “Nephali”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nepaal”
  • Northern Luri: “نپال”
  • Northern Sami: “Nepal demokráhtalaš lihttodásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Nepal”
  • Northern Sami: “Nepala demokráhtalaš lihttodásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den føderale demokratiske republikken Nepal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nepal”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nepal”
  • Norwegian: “Nepal”
  • Novial: “Nepal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nepal”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nepal”
  • Oriya: “ନେପାଳ”
  • Oromo: “Neeppaal”
  • Ossetian: “Непал”
  • Pali: “नेपाल”
  • Pampanga: “Nepal”
  • Pangasinan: “Nepal”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੇਪਾਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Nepal”
  • Persian: “نپال”
  • Picard: “Népal”
  • Piemontese: “Nepal”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nepal”
  • Polish: “Nepal”
  • Portuguese: “Nepal”
  • Portuguese: “República Democrática Federal do Nepal”
  • Pushto: “نيپال”
  • Pushto: “نیپال”
  • Quechua: “Nepal”
  • Quechua: “Nipal”
  • Romanian: “Nepal”
  • Romansh: “Nepal”
  • Rundi: “Nepali”
  • Russia Buriat: “Балба”
  • Russian: “Непал”
  • Russian: “Федеративная Демократическая Республика Непал”
  • Rusyn: “Непал”
  • Sakizaya: “Nepal”
  • Samoan: “Nepal”
  • Samogitian: “Nepals”
  • Sango: “Nëpâli”
  • Sanskrit: “नेपालदेशः”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱤᱯᱟᱞ”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱮᱯᱚᱞ”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱮᱯᱟᱞ”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱮᱯᱟᱲ”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱮᱹᱯᱟᱞ”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱮᱼᱯᱟᱞ”
  • Sardinian: “Nepal”
  • Scots: “Nepal”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Neapàl”
  • Serbian: “Nepal”
  • Serbian: “Непал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nepal”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၼေႇပေႃး”
  • Shona: “Nepal”
  • Shona: “Neparu”
  • Sicilian: “Nepal”
  • Silesian: “Nepal”
  • Sindhi: “نيپال”
  • Sinhala: “නේපාලය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nepaal demokraattlaž lett-tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nepal”
  • Slovak: “Nepál”
  • Slovak: “Nepálska federatívna demokratická republika”
  • Slovenian: “Federativna demokratična republika Nepal”
  • Slovenian: “Nepal”
  • Slovenian: “NPL”
  • Somali: “Nebaal”
  • Somali: “Nebal”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نئپال”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نپال”
  • Spanish: “Nepal”
  • Spanish: “Republica Federal Democratica de Nepal”
  • Spanish: “República Federal Democrática de Nepal”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Nepal”
  • Sundanese: “Nepal”
  • Sundanese: “Népal”
  • Swahili: “Nepal”
  • Swati: “INephali”
  • Swedish: “Demokratiska förbundsrepubliken Nepal”
  • Swedish: “Nepal”
  • Swiss German: “Nepal”
  • Sylheti: “ꠘꠙ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠘꠙꠟ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠘꠦꠙꠣꠟ”
  • Tagalog: “Nepal”
  • Tajik: “Непал”
  • Talysh: “Nepal”
  • Tamil: “நேபாளம்”
  • Tamil: “நேப்பாளம்”
  • Taroko: “Nepal”
  • Tatar: “Непал”
  • Telugu: “నేపాల్”
  • Tetum: “Nepál”
  • Thai: “เนปาล”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเนปาล”
  • Tibetan: “བལ་ཡུལ་”
  • Tibetan: “བལ་ཡུལ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኔፓል”
  • Tok Pisin: “Nepal”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Nepali”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nepal”
  • Tsonga: “Nepal”
  • Tulu: “ನೇಪಾಳ”
  • Tumbuka: “Nepal”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “نيپال”
  • Turkish: “Nepal”
  • Turkmen: “Nepal”
  • Twi: “Nepal”
  • Udmurt: “Непал”
  • Uighur: “نېپال”
  • Ukrainian: “Непал”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nepal”
  • Urdu: “نیپال”
  • Uzbek: “Nepal”
  • Venetian: “Nèpal”
  • Veps: “Nepal”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Dân chủ Liên bang Nepal”
  • Vietnamese: “Nê-pan (Nepal)”
  • Vietnamese: “Nê-pan”
  • Vietnamese: “Nepal”
  • Vlaams: “Nepal”
  • Vlax Romani: “Nepal”
  • Vlax Romani: “नेपाल”
  • Volapük: “Nepalän”
  • Võro: “Nepal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nepal”
  • Welsh: “Nepal”
  • Western Armenian: “Նեփալ”
  • Western Balochi: “نیپال”
  • Western Frisian: “Nepal”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیپال”
  • Wolof: “Nepaal”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼泊尔”
  • Xhosa: “Nephal”
  • Yakut: “Непал”
  • Yiddish: “נעפאל”
  • Yiddish: “נעפּאַל”
  • Yoruba: “Nepa”
  • Yoruba: “Nepal”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼泊爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Nepal”
  • Zhuang: “Nepal”
  • Zulu: “i-Nepal”
  • Zulu: “Nepal”
  • “ma Nepali”
  • “ma Nepalu”
  • “NEP”
  • “Nepal”
  • “Nepals”
  • “NP”
  • “NPL”
  • “नेपाल”

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