# Nepal

| Federal Democratic Republic o Nepal* सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल (Nepali)
* *Sanghiya Loktāntrik Ganatantra Nepāl*
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| **Motto:**जननी जन्मभूमिश्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी (Sanskrit) Mither an Mutherland are Greater nor Heiven (Scots) |
| **Anthem:**सयौं थुँगा फूलका (Nepali) Made o Hunders o Flouers (Scots)  |
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| Caipital and largest city | Kathmandu ﻿ / ﻿ |
| Offeecial leids | Nepali |
| Recognised regional leids | * Awadhi
* Bhojpuri
* Bajjika
* Gurung
* Kiranti
* Limbu
* Magar
* Maithili
* Newar
* Rai
* Sherpa
* Tamang
* Tharu
* Urdu
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| Ethnic groups (2011) |
Ethnic demografie[show]
* 16.6% Chhettri
* 12.2% Brahman-Hill
* 7.1% Magar
* 6.6% Tharu
* 5.8% Tamang
* 5% Newar
* 4.8% Kami
* 4.4% Muslim
* 4% Yadav
* 2.3% Rai
* 2% Gurung
* 1.8% Damai/Dholii
* 1.6%
Thakuri
* 1.5% Limbu
* 1.4% Sarki
* 1.4% Teli
* 1.3% Chamar/Harijan/Ram
* 1.2% Koiri/Kushwaha
* 19% Ither
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| Releegion  | 81.3% Hinduism 9% Buddhism 4.4% Islam 3% Kirant 1.4% Christianity 0.4% Animism 0.5% Irreleegion |
| Demonym(s) | Nepalese |
| Govrenment | Federal pairlamentar republic |
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| • Preses  | Bidhya Devi Bhandari |
| • Vice Preses  | Nanda Kishor Pun |
| • Prime Meenister  | Sher Bahadur Deuba |
| • Speaker o Hoose  | Agni Prasad Sapkota |
| • Chief Juistice  | Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana |
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| Legislatur | Pairlament |
| Unification |
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| • Kinrick declared | 25 September 1768 |
| • State declared  | 15 Januar 2007 |
| • Republic declared | 28 Mey 2008 |
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| Aurie |
| • Total | 147,181 km2 (56,827 sq mi) (95th) |
| • Water (%) | 2.8 |
| Population |
| • 2017 estimate | 28,825,709 (48t) |
| • 2011 census | 26,494,504 |
| • Density | 180/km2 (466.2/sq mi) (62nt) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2016 estimate |
| • Total | $74.020 billion |
| • Per capita | $2,573 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2016 estimate |
| • Tot | $24.067 billion ((107th)) |
| • Per capita | $837 |
| Gini (2010) |  32.8 medium |
| HDI (2016) |  0.558 medium · 144th |
| Currency | Nepalese rupee (NPR) |
| Time zone | UTC+05:45 (Nepal Staundart Time) |
|  | *DST nae observed* |
| Drivin side | left |
| Cawin code | +977 |
| ISO 3166 code | NP |
| Internet TLD | .np .नेपाल |

**Nepal** (pronounced /nɛˈpɔːl/*(deprecatit template)* *ne-PAWL* Nepali: नेपाल [neˈpal] ), offeecially the **Federal Democratic Republic o Nepal**, is a landlockt kintra in Sooth Asie. It is locatit in the Himalayas an bordered tae the north bi the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, an tae the sooth, east, an wast bi the Republic o Indie. Wi an aurie o 147,181 square kilometres (56,827 sq mi) an a population o approximately 30 million, Nepal is the warld's 93rd lairgest kintra b land mass an the 41st maist populous kintra. Kathmandu is the naition's caipital an the kintra's lairgest metropolis.

Nepal haes a rich geography. The muntainous north haes aicht o the warld's ten tawest muntains, includin the hichtest pynt on Yird, Munt Everest, cawed *Sagarmatha* in Nepali. It contains mair nor 240 peaks ower 20,000 ft (6,096 m) abuin sea level. The fertile an humid sooth is heavily urbanised.

Bi some measures, Hinduism is practised bi a lairger majority o fowk in Nepal than in ony ither naition. Buddhism, tho a minority faith in the kintra, is linkt historically wi Nepal as the birthplace o the Buddha. Thare are 3 different buddhist tradeetions: Himalayan Buddhism, Buddhism o Kathmandu Valley (maistly Mahayana an Vajrayana), an an aa the Theravada Buddhism.

Aboot hauf o the population live belaw the internaitional poverty line o $1.25 a day.

A monarchy throughoot maist o its history, Nepal wis ruled bi the Shah dynasty o keengs frae 1768, when Prithvi Narayan Shah unified its mony sma kinricks. In 2006, housomeivver, a decade-lang Fowkrevolution bi the Communist Pairty o Nepal (Maoist) alang wi several weeks o mass protests bi aw major poleetical pairties o Nepal culminatit in a peace accord, an the ensuin elections for the constituent assembly votit owerwhelmingly in favor o the abdication o the last Nepali monarch Gyanendra Shah an the establishment o a federal democratic republic in 28 Mey 2008. The first Preses o Nepal, Ram Baran Yadav, wis sworn in on 23 Julie 2008.

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