About
Nepal
 Nepal
is a country of amazing extremes. There are the world's highest
mountains including Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest 8848 m) towering
above populated valley with shrines, temples, palaces and
ageless sculptures and legends and forested plains in which
the lordly tigers and trundling rhinoceros live. Enchantment
is everywhere, lie it on the shoulders of high mountains on
terraced farmlands meticulously carved like stairways out
of hill ridges on cascading mountain rivulets and rushing
rivers, or in forest full of wildlife, flowers and bird song.
Something for everybody tourist,trekker,river runner, wildlife
enthusiast,poet,artist,writer, scholar or the weary in search
of a personal Shangrila.
Nepal is bounded on the north by Tibet Autonomous
Region of People's Republic of China, on the east by Sikkim
and West Bengal of the Indian Union, on the south by Indian
States of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and on the west by Uttar
Pradesh of Indian Union. The length of the Kingdom is 885
km east-west and its breadth varies 145 to 241 km north and
south.
Climatically, it lies in the temperate zone
with added advantage of altitude. Except for some exception,
are seldom less than 1220 meters above the sea level. The
country is divided in three regions Himalayan, Mountain and
Terai (plain).
Nepal has population of 23 million, made of different races
and tribes living in different regions, wearing different
costumes and speaking different languages and dialects. Hinduism
and Buddhism constitute two major religions of Nepal sharing
between them some 86.5 and 7.8 percent of the total population
respectively. Both these co-religionists are bound together
by a sense of fellow-feeling bonhomie particularly displayed
in their worship of common deities and joint celebration of
many festivals belonging to either relgion culture. Kumari,
the Virgin Hindu Goddess, for instances is selected from Buddhist
clan.
Apart from Hindus and Buddhists, Muslims
(3.5 %) from the third largest religious group & 2.2 %
of other religions.
Language: Many different ethnic groups have their own languages
for dialects but Nepali, the national language, written in
Devanagari script serves the purpose of Kingdom's lingua franca
in Nepal. The educated people speak and understand English
as well.
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