Nepal is a land locked country between China and Tibet in the North and India in the South. From East to West it has about 900 km, from North to South around 200 km.
Nepal is divided into 3 zones:
mountainous areas (4,000 – 8,848 m, 35% of the total land mass, population density: 7% of the population)
hilly regions (600 – 4,000 m, 42% of the total land mass, population density: 43% of the population)
Terai Zone (90 – 600 m, 23% of the total land mass, population density: 50% of the population, tropical – subtropical climate).
With this, Nepal is the country with the biggest difference in allover altitude (from 90 – 8848 m) in the whole world.
There is also a subdivision into 5 development zones (Eastern, Central, Western, Mid-western, Far-Eastern), 14 main zones and 75 administrative districts and further division of districts into 3,915 “village development committees – VDCs.
Approximately 30 million people live in Nepal, thereof 3 million in the valley of Kathmandu.
Kathmandu is the capital and is one of the ancient kingdoms together with Patan/Lalitpur and Bakthapur.
Currency: Nepalese Rupee
Nepal has the only non-rectangular flag in the world.
Religion: 80% of Nepali are Hindus, just under 15% are Buddhists, few are Muslims and Christians.
There are 103 different ethnic groups / castes, the largest ethnic groups are the Chetri, Brahmis, Magar, Tharu, Tamang and Newar. 79% of the population is of Indo-European origin, 18% is of sino-tibetan origin.
Official language: Nepali (about 50% of the population). There are 92 different languages. Sherpa have their own Sherpa language, which is related to Tibetan. Nepali originated from Sanskrit.
The script used is Devanagari, which is related to Sanskrit.
