Nepal (नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is bordered by China to the north and by India to the south, east and west. The Himalaya mountain range runs across Nepal's northern and western parts, and eight of the world's ten highest mountains, including the highest, Mount Everest, are within its territory. The modern state was formed with the Unification of Nepal by Prithvi Narayan Shah on December 21, 1768. Prior to 2006, Nepal was a kingdom and the only nation with Hinduism as its official religion. At present, Nepal is officially a federal democratic republic. Its recent history has involved struggles for democratic government with periods of direct monarchic rule. From 1995 until 2006, Nepal suffered from a Civil War between government forces and Maoist guerrillas of the Communist Party of Nepal. On December 28, 2007, the Interim Parliament passed a bill and declared Nepal to be a Federal Democratic Republic. The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly officially implemented that declaration on May 28 2008. Nepal is a multi-cultural, multi-linguistic and multi religious country. For a relatively small country, Nepal has a diverse landscape, ranging from the humid Terai plains in the south to the mountainous Himalayas in the north, which makes it a major tourist destination. Hinduism is practised by a huge majority of the people, but the country also has a strong Buddhist tradition; Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha Siddhartha Gautama is located in the Terai, one of the three regions of Nepal. The capital Kathmandu is the largest city in the country. The official language is Nepali and the state currency is the Nepalese Rupee (NPR). Nepal's Flag is the only national flag in the world that is non-quadrilateral in shape. It is believed that Lord Vishnu had organized the Nepali people and given them this flag, with the sun and moon as emblems on it. In a Hindu Purana, it is written that it was Lord Shiva who handed the flag to Lord Vishnu, and then Lord Vishnu to Lord Indra, for the purpose for battling demons. (more)
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Kathmandu:
Kathmandu (काठमांडौ, येँ) is the capital and the largest city of Nepal. The city is situated in Kathmandu Valley that also contains two other cities - Patan and Bhaktapur. Nepali is the lingua franca of the valley and is the most widely spoken langua
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Nepali language:
{{Infobox Language |name=Nepali |nativename=नेपाली Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Nepal, Bhutan, and some parts of India and Myanmar (Burma). The word 'Nepali' is also written as 'Nepalese' by few people. It is the lingua-franca of Nepal
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Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist):
The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (माओवादी)) is a Maoist political party in Nepal, founded in 1994 and led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal (otherwise known as Prachanda). Following massive popular demonstrations and a prolonged "Pe
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Terai:
The Terai ("moist land") is a belt of marshy grasslands, savannas, and forests at the base of the Himalaya range in India, Nepal, and Bhutan, from the Yamuna River in the west to the Brahmaputra River in the east. Above the Terai belt lies the Bhabha
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Lumbini:
Lumbini (Sanskrit: लुम्बिनी, "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Kapilavastu district of Nepal, near the Indian border. It is the place where Queen Mayadevi is said to have given birth to Siddhartha Gautama, who in turn, as the Buddha
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Nepalese Civil War:
The Nepalese Civil War (labelled People's War by the Maoists ) was a conflict between government forces and Maoist rebels in Nepal which lasted from 1996 until 2006. The war was started by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) on February 13, 1996, w
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Demographics of Nepal:
Perched on the southern slopes of the Himalayan Mountains, State of Nepal is as ethnically diverse as its terrain of fertile plains, broad valleys, and the highest mountain peaks in the world. The Nepalese are descendants of three major migrations fr
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Nepalese rupee:
The rupee (रूपैयाँ) is the official currency of Nepal. It is subdivided into 100 paisa. The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Nepal Rastra Bank. The most commonly used symbol for the Rupee is Rs or ₨. The ISO 4217 code for Nepalese rupee
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Flag of Nepal:
The national flag of Nepal is one of only two non-rectangular official jurisdictional flags in the world (the other being the state flag of Ohio, USA). The flag is a simplified combination of two single pennants from different branches of the previou
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India:
India (Hindi: भारत ; see also other Indian languages), officially the Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by geographical area, the second most populous country, and the most popul
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Buddhism:
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy with between 230 and 500 million adherents worldwide. The vast majority live in Asia. It consists of two major schools: Mahayana and Theravada. The Mahayana school is in turn divided into East Asian (including Pu
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Hindu:
A Hindu ( , Devanagari: हिन्दू) is an adherent of the philosophies and scriptures of Hinduism, a set of religious, philosophical and cultural systems that originated in the Indian subcontinent. When and how the word 'Hindu" was coined is not precisel
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Hinduism:
Hinduism is a religious tradition that originated in the Indian subcontinent. Hinduism is often referred to as Sanātana Dharma (सनातन धर्म) by its practitioners, a Sanskrit phrase meaning "the eternal law" or "eternal way". Historically, Hinduism in
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Himalayas:
The Himalaya Range (Sanskrit: हिमालय, IPA pronunciation: [hɪ'mɑlijə]), or Himalayas for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. By extension, it is also the name of the massive mountain system
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Mount Everest:
Mount Everest, also called Chomolungma, Qomolangma or Zhumulangma (in ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, in Chinese: 珠穆朗玛峰 Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) or Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा meaning Ocean Head) is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea leve
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Prithvi Narayan Shah:
Prithvi Narayan Shah, King of Nepal (1723 - 1775 A.D.; Nepali: पृथ्वी नारायण शाह) was the ninth generation descendant of Dravya Shah (1559 - 1570 A.D.) , the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha. Prithvi Narayan Shah succeeded his father King Nara B
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List of Nepal-related topics:
This is a list of topics related to Nepal. Those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on Related changes in the sidebar.
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Gautama Buddha:
Siddhārtha Gautama (pronunciation: [sɪd̪.d̪ʰaːr.t̪ʰə gəʊ.t̪ə.mə]), in Sanskrit, or Siddhattha Gotama, in Pali, was a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the founder of Buddhism. He is generally recognized by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha (Samm
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Maoism:
Maoism, variably and officially known as Mao Zedong Thought ( ), is a variant of Marxism derived from the teachings of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong (Wade-Giles Romanization: "Mao Tse-tung"), widely applied as the political and military guiding
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Indian subcontinent:
The Indian subcontinent is a large section of the Asian continent consisting of countries lying substantially on the Indian tectonic plate. These include countries on the continental crust (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan), an island co
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Gurkha:
Gurkha, also spelled as Gorkha, are people from Nepal , who take their name from the eighth century Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath. His disciple Bappa Rawal, born Prince Kalbhoj/Prince Shailadhish, founded the house of Mewar, Rajasthan (Rajputan
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Nepalese Constituent Assembly election, 2008:
An election for a Constituent Assembly was held in Nepal on 10 April 2008 "Nepal decides to hold crucial election on April 10", Associated Press (The Hindu), 11 January 2008. "Nepal sets new date for elections", BBC News, 11 January 2008. after havin
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Nepali Congress:
The Nepali Congress is a Nepalese political party. It is led by Girija Prasad Koirala.
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Nepal Bhasa:
Nepal Bhasa (नेपाल भाषा, also known as Newah Bhaye and Newari) is one of the major languages of Nepal. It is one of roughly five hundred Sino-Tibetan languages, and belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of this family. It is the only Tibeto-Burman lang
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Sherpa people:
The Sherpa (Tibetan:ཤར་པ། "eastern people", from shar "east" + pa "people") are an ethnic group from the most mountainous region of Nepal, high in the Himalayas. Sherpas migrated from eastern Tibet to Nepal within the last 500 years. A sherpa woman i
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Newa people:
The Newa (Nepal Bhasa:नेवाः Newa or Newah, Old Nepal Bhasa: नेवार Newar, नेवाल Newal) are the indigenous people of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. Newars are a linguistic community with Tibeto-Burman ethnicity/race and faith, bound together by a common lan
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Rai (ethnic group):
The Rai, also known as the Khambu (people of Khumbu region), is one of Nepal's most ancient indigenous ethnolinguistic groups. The Rai(Khambu) belong to the Kirati group or the Kirat confederation that includes the Limbu, the Sunuwar, Yakkha Dhimal,
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Zones of Nepal:
Nepal is divided into 14 administrative zones (अञ्चल, "anchal"), which are divided into 75 districts (जिल्ला, "jilla"). The 14 administrative zones are grouped into five development regions (विकास क्षेत्र). Each district is headed by a chief district
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Kangchenjunga:
Kangchenjunga (Nepali:कञ्चनजङ्घा Kanchanjaŋghā) SewaLungma (Limbu language) is the third highest mountain in the world (after Mount Everest and K2) with an altitude of 8,586 metres (28,169 feet).The second highest peak in Nepal. Kangchenjunga transla
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Nepal House of Representatives:
The House of Representatives (Nepali: Pratinidhi Sabha) was the lower house of parliament during the 1990 Constitution in Nepal. It consisted of 205 members directly elected by the people. It had five-year terms, but it could be dissolved by the king
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Districts of Nepal:
The 14 administrative zones (अञ्चल) of Nepal are subdivided into 75 districts (जिल्ला). The districts are listed below, by zone:
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Kathmandu Valley:
The Kathmandu Valley (नेपाः स्वनिगः Nepāḥ Svānigaḥ), located in the Nepal, lies at the crossroads of ancient civilizations of Asia, and has at least 130 important monuments, including several places of pilgrimage for the Hindus and the Buddhists. The
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Bhaktapur:
Bhaktapur (भक्तपुर जिल्ला Bhaktapur Jillā), also Bhadgaon or Khwopa (ख्वप Khvapa) is an ancient Newar town in the east corner of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. It is located in Bhaktapur District and has approx. 78,000 inhabitants. The male inhabitants
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Gurung:
The Gurung is an ethnic group from the Central region of Nepal. They live primarily in West Nepal’s Gandaki zone, specifically Lamjung, Kaski, Tanahu, Gorkha, Parbat and Syangja districts as well as the Manang district around the Annapurna mountain r
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Morang District:
Morang District, a part of Kosi Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Biratnagar as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,855km² and has a population (2001) of 843,220. Th
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2006 democracy movement in Nepal:
The 2006 Democracy Movement (Nepali: लोकतन्त्र आन्दोलन Loktantra Āndolan) is a name given to the ongoing political agitations against the rule of King Gyanendra of Nepal. The movement is also sometimes referred to as Jana Andolan-II ("People's Moveme
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Tribhuvan of Nepal:
King Tribhuhvan Bir Bikram Shah Dev (त्रिभुवन वीर विक्रम शाहदेव), King of Nepal (June 30, 1906 - March 13, 1955) was King of Nepal from 11 december, 1911 until his death, excepting a period in 1950-51. Born in Kathmandu (Nepal's capital city), he asc
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Gurkha War:
The Gurkha War (1814–1816), sometimes called the Gorkha War or the Anglo-Nepalese War, was fought between Nepal and the British East India Company as a result of border tensions and ambitious expansionism. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty
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Manaslu:
Manaslu (मनास्लु, also known as Kutang) is the eighth highest mountain in the world, located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas. Manaslu is derived from the Sanskrit word Manasa and is translated as "Mountain of the Spirit". Manaslu
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Magar people:
Magar is a Sino-Tibetan ethnic group of Nepal and northern India whose homeland extends from the western and southern edges of the Dhaulagiri section of the high Himalayas range south to the prominent Mahabharat foothill range and eastward into the G
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Girija Prasad Koirala:
Girija Prasad Koirala (गिरिजा प्रसाद कोइराला, born 1925) is the Acting Head of State and Prime Minister of Nepal. He has been Prime Minister of Nepal four times, serving from 1991 to 1994, 1998 to 1999, 2000 to 2001, and again since April 2006. He is
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Nepalese monarchy:
The King of Nepal was traditionally known as the Mahārājdhirāja (श्री ५ महाराजधिराज); his queen was known as the Badāmahārānī (श्री ५ बडामहारानी). The monarchy was founded in 1768 and was abolished on 28 May 2008 by the Nepalese Constituent Assembly.
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Nepal Army:
The Nepal Army (Nepali: Nepali Sena नेपाली सेना) is the army of Nepal and a major component of the Military of Nepal. The NA includes the Nepalese Army Air Service and is considered to be superior to Nepalese Police Force. Service is voluntary and th
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Ghaghara River:
Ghaghara (also spelled the Gogra, Ghaghra or Ghagra, Nepali Kauriala or Manchu or the Karnali), literally means ' holy water from the sacred mountain', (Karnali also means “Turquoise River”), is a trans-boundary perennial river which originates on th
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Nepal Sambat:
Nepal Sambat (Nepal Bhasa: नेपाल सम्बत) is a lunar calendar used in Kathmandu valley of Nepal. It is believed that in the reign of King Raghav Dev of Kathmandu, it was initiated by Sankhadhar Sakhwa to commemorate the pay back of all the debts of peo
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Rana dynasty:
The Rana dynasty ruled the Kingdom of Nepal from 1846 until 1953, reducing the Shah monarch to a figurehead and making Prime Minister and other government positions hereditary. It is descended from one Ashiram Kunwar of Kaski, who moved to Gorkha in
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Kosi River:
The Koshi River or Kośi River, is a transboundary river between Nepal and India and is one of the largest tributaries of the Ganga. The river along with its tributaries, drains a total up to its confluence with the Ganga in India (29,400sqkm in Tibet
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Tharu people:
The Tharu people are indigenous people living in the Surkhet Valley in the west mountain region, Chitwan Valley, Dang Valley,Deukhuri Valley,Sindhuli and Udyapur in Inner Terai Valleys of Nepal and the Terai plains on the border of Nepal and India. T
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Jang Bahadur:
Jung Bahadur (or Jang Bahadur), GCB, GCSI, (June 18, 1816, Kathmandu, Nepal -February 25, 1877, Kathmandu) was a ruler of Nepal and founder of the Rana dynasty of Nepal. His real name was Bir Narsingh Kunwar but he became famous by the name Jang Baha
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Regions of Nepal:
Nepal is divided into 14 administrative zones (अञ्चल), which are divided into 75 districts (जिल्ला). The 14 administrative zones are grouped into five development regions (विकास क्षेत्र). Each district is headed by a chief district officer (or CDO) r
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Pashupatinath Temple:
Pashupatinath temple (पशुपितनाथ मन्िदर ) is a Hindu temple located on the shore of the Bagmati river on the eastern part of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. It is regarded as the most sacred temple of Shiva (Pashupati) in Nepal. "Shivaratri" or night
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Sugauli Treaty:
The Sugauli Treaty (also spelled Segowlee and Segqulee) was signed on December 2, 1815 and ratified by March 4, 1816, between the British East India Company and Nepal, which was a kingdom during that era. This ended the second British invasion of the
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Tihar (festival):
Tihar (ितहार) is a five-day Nepalese festival celebrated in late autumn, which comes soon after Dashain. One of these days incorporates the Hindu festival Deepavali Although all ethnic groups celebrate it, the Newars in particular celebrate it in a c
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Patan:
Patan may refer to places in Afghanistan, India and Nepal:
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Gorkha:
Gorkha can mean: * The name of today's Nepalese City of Gorkha * The name of today's District of Gorkha * The name of the medieval state of Gorkha * Nepalese official name as a state before 1930 * Gorkha Beer, a brand of beer brewed in Nepal See also
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Mahabharat Lekh:
The Mahabharat Lekh or Range is a major east-west mountain range generally 1,500 to 3,000 meters high across Nepal. East of Nepal it extends through Sikkim and Bhutan but is difficult to differentiate from other Himalayan ranges in India's Arunachal
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Dasain:
Dashain (दशैं) is the 15-day national festival of Nepal, and a state festival of Indian states of Sikkim and the Darjeeling district of West Bengal. It is also a national holiday in Bhutan. Now it is celebrated all around the world by the Nepalese di
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Thakali:
The Thakali ethnolinguistic group originated from the Thak Khola region of the Mustang district in the Dhaulagiri zone of Nepal. Thak-sat-se is the traditional area of the Thakali community, which lies in the salt trading zone on the south of Tukuche
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Greater Nepal:
Greater Nepal is a concept referring to the state of Nepal extending beyond present boundaries to include territories ceded to the British East India Company under the Sugauli Treaty that ended the Anglo-Nepalese War in 1816. The idea of a modern Nep
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National Assembly of Nepal:
The National Assembly (Nepali: Rashtriya Sabha) was the upper house of parliament in Nepal during the 1990 Constitution. It Nepal had 60 members, 10 nominated by the king, 35 elected by the House of Representatives and the remaining 15 elected by an
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Law enforcement in Nepal:
The Nepalese Police Force is the national police of Nepal. It is independent of the Nepalese Army. Although once brought under the Army in the name of "Unified Command", it is taken as a force separate from the Army. In the days of its establishment,
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Sunwar:
The Sunwar are a tribe in Nepal. The tribe is influenced by Hinduism. Sunwar is also the name of the language spoken by these people. The language was first comprehensively characterized by the Himalayan Languages Project.
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Hill Region:
Nepal's Hill region consists predominantly of the land area from 600 meters to 1,800 meters above sea level. The area consists of the historically important then state: Gorkha district, Syangja, Kaski, Lamjung, and Tanahun, among others. In Tanahun D
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Siwalik region:
Siwalik is highland region in between the Mahabharat and Chure mountain range in Nepal. This region has deposit of huge quantity of calcium carbonate and subeconomic grade of important minerals such as iron, sulfur, copper etc. The tectonically acti
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Bhutan:
The Kingdom of Bhutan ( ) is a landlocked nation in South Asia. It is located amid the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and is bordered to the south, east and west by India and to the north by Tibet/China. Bhutan is separated from Nepal by the I
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Sikkim:
Sikkim (Nepali: , also Sikhim) is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India, and the second-smallest in area after Goa. The thumb-shaped state borders Nepal in the west, China to the north and east, a
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Gupta Empire:
The Gupta Empire was ruled by members of the Gupta dynasty from around 320 to 550 AD and covered most of Northern India, parts of eastern Pakistan and what is now western India and Bangladesh. The time of the Gupta Empire is referred to as Golden Age
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Sivalik Hills:
The Sivalik Hills also known as the Sivalik mountains (also spelled Shiwalik, Shivalik, or Siwalik) and sometimes called Churia or Chure Hills or Outer Himalaya are the southernmost and geologically youngest east-west mountain chain of the Himalayan
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Lhotse:
Lhotse (in Nepal officially ल्होत्से, in China officially Lhozê; Tibetan in Wylie transliteration: lho rtse; Chinese: 洛子峰, Pinyin: Luòzǐ Fēng) is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Mount Everest via the South Col. In addition to
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Dhaulagiri:
Dhaulagiri (धौलागिरी) is the seventh highest mountain in the world. It forms the eastern anchor of the Dhaulagiri Himal, a subrange of the Himalaya in the Dhawalagiri Zone of north central Nepal. It lies northwest of Pokhara, an important regional to
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Bhutia:
The Bhutias are people of Tibetan origin, who migrated to Sikkim, other parts of India and Bhutan some time after the 15th century. They migrated through the different passes ("La" in Tibetan) in the Himalayas. Geographical denotations in the names o
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Secular state:
A secular state is a state or country that is officially neutral in matters of religion, neither supporting nor opposing any particular religious beliefs or practices. A secular state also treats all its citizens equally regardless of religion, and d
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Licchavi:
Licchavi (also Lichchhavi, Lichavi) was an ancient republic which existed in what is now Bihar state of India, since the before the birth of Mahavira (b. 599 BC), and later a kingdom in Nepal which existed in the Kathmandu Valley from approximately 4
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Gandaki River:
The Gandaki River, also known as the Kali Gandaki, Narayani (after confluence with Trisuli) in Nepal and the Gandak in India, is a tributary of the Ganga or Ganges River. It is one of the major rivers of Nepal and India and a north bank tributary of
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Limbu people:
The Limbu (meaning: archer) or Yakthumba/Yakthung (in Limbu language) are an indigenous ethnic group that belongs to the Kiranti group or Kirat confederation that includes the Rai. Their approx population of 400,000 is centered on the districts of Sa
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