Question: Chitwan National Park and Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining are located in Europe?

Context articles: Chitwan National Park
Ratnanagar
Madi, Chitwan
History of coal mining
Pithuwa
National Trust for Nature Conservation
Bharatpur Airport
Padampur, Nepal
Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

Chitwan National Park (Nepali: चितवन राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज ; formerly Royal Chitwan National Park) is the first national park in Nepal.
 It was established in 1973 and granted the status of a World Heritage Site in 1984.
 It covers an area of 932 km2 and is located in the subtropical Inner Terai lowlands of south-central Nepal in the districts of Nawalparasi, Parsa, Chitwan and Makwanpur.
 In altitude it ranges from about 100 m in the river valleys to 815 m in the Churia Hills.
Ratnanagar is a municipality in Chitwan District of Nepal.
 It is the second municipality in the district and the biggest municipality after Bharatpur Metropolitan City.
 Tandi is the major town of the former Village Development Committee that was incorporated into Ratnanagar.
 It is adjacent to Chitwan National Park, and serves as a gateway to the park.
 Ratnanagar Municipality have many possibilities in the field of agriculture, tourism, education.
 Agricultural products produced from Ratnanagar includes rice, maize, mustard and vegetables.
 This municipality is also a major place for production of poultry products and animal husbandry.
 Tourism is another source of income generation for the people in ratnanagar.
 People are directly or indirectly dependent in tourism industry.
 Well facilities hotel, vehicles, public transport are available for each part of Ratnanagar.
 Ratnanagar is also concerned in environment preservation so in order to preserve and protect environment, eco-friendly electric risk-shaw has also been introduced and available in different parts of this municipality.
Madi (माडी नगरपालिका) is a municipality in Chitwan District of Nepal.
 With the population about 50,000, it is the fifth municipality in the district.
 Basantapur was the major town of the former Baghauda Village Development Committee (बघौंडा गा.वि.स.)
 that was incorporated into Madi Municipality.
 It is adjacent to Chitwan National Park.
 This municipality was formed by cabinet dated 2071-01-28 (BS).
 There were four village development committees before- Ayodhyapuri (अयोध्यापुरी), Kalyanpur (कल्याणपुर), Gardi (गर्दी) and Baghauda (बघौडा).
 Madi is a beautiful valley surrounded by jungles.
 In north by Chitwan National Park and in south bordered with India.
 It is famous for several ancient religious sites.
 Pandavas were here in their 12 years exile.
 There is a village named after them, Pandava Nagar in western Madi.
 This is also the sacred place for Hindus as the Saga Valmiki lived here thousands years ago.
The history of coal mining goes back thousands of years.
 It became important in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was primarily used to power steam engines, heat buildings and generate electricity.
 Coal mining continues as an important economic activity today.
 Compared to wood fuels, coal yields a higher amount of energy per mass and can often be obtained in areas where wood is not readily available.
 Though it was used historically as a domestic fuel, coal is now used mostly in industry, especially in smelting and alloy production as well as electricity generation.
 Large-scale coal mining developed during the Industrial Revolution, and coal provided the main source of primary energy for industry and transportation in industrial areas from the 18th century to the 1950s.
 Coal remains an important energy source because of its low cost and abundance compared to other fuels, particularly for electricity generation.
 Coal is also mined today on a large scale by open pit methods wherever the coal strata strike the surface or are relatively shallow.
 Britain developed the main techniques of underground coal mining from the late 18th century onward, with further progress being driven by 19th century and early 20th century progress.
 However, oil and gas were increasingly used as alternatives from the 1860s onward.
Pithuwa is one of the developed suburb area of Ratnanagar Municipality in Chitwan District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal.
 The area consists of Ward No. 13, 14 & 15.
 According to 2011 Nepal census survey it had a population of 12,579 (5696 male & 6883 female ) people living in 2,898 individual households .
 Pithuwa is located West to the Kayer river [कयर खोला], East and North to Tandi and South to Khairhani Municipality.
 Most people of this suburbs are immigrants of Gorkha and Dhading districts.
 It lies in constituency region no. 2 out of five constituencies of Chitwan.
 The total population living here are the more immigrated from the hills, especially from Gorkha and Dhading districts.
 Here are also some indigenous communities, various ethnic group which co-relate their individual values and cultures like Tharus and Darais.
 Jana Jagriti Higher Secondary School [जन जागृती उच्च.
 मा.
 बि.]
, only higher secondary school of the suburbs which is the sole provider of higher education and periphery since about 5 decades.
 It is one of the most beautiful place of the Eastern Chitwan.
 It is close to the famous tourist place such as Saurah & Chitwan National Park (CNP).
The National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), (राष्ट्रिय प्रकृति संरक्षण कोष) previously known as King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation is a Nepalese non-governmental organization working in the field of nature conservation.
It was established in 1982 as an autonomous non profit organization by legislative law of Nepal.
 NTNC's mission is to conserve nature and natural resources in Nepal while meeting the needs of the people in sustainable way.
 Geographically, the Trust activities have spread from the sub-tropical plains of Chitwan, Bardia and Kanchanpur in the lowlands to the Annapurna and Manaslu region of the high Himalayas, including the trans-Himalayan region of Upper Mustang and Manang.
 Currently, the projects of Trust are divided into three geographical areas - the lowland, the mid-hills (Kathmandu Valley) and the high mountains.
 The Trust’s activities in the lowlands are based in and around the Chitwan National Park, the Bardia National Park and the Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve located in the central, western and far-western development regions of Nepal, through the Biodiversity Conservation Center (BCC) in Chitwan, the Bardia Conservation Program (BCP) in Bardia and the Suklaphanta Conservation Program (SCP) in Kanchanpur.
 Similarly, the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), the Manaslu Conservation Area Project (MCAP) and Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project (GCAP) are three protected areas managed by the Trust in the mountain region.
 The Central Zoo is the only project of the Trust in Kathmandu Valley.
 As a new initiative, the Trust has established an Energy and Climate Change Unit to address the emerging issues of climate change through mitigation and adaptation approach and renewable energy technologies.
 The Trust has also started work on urban environment conservation with the Bagmati River Conservation Project.
Bharatpur Airport (Nepali: भरतपुर विमानस्थल ) (IATA: BHR, ICAO: VNBP) is an airport serving Bharatpur, a city in the Chitwan District in Province No. 3 in Nepal.
 The airport is located 1 mi southwest of Bharatpur.
 It is operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) and is served by Nepal Airlines, the national airline which earns most of its revenue from this airport.
 Bharatpur Airport is the country's 4th busiest.
 It is the main tourist gateway to Chitwan National Park, and is growing fast in terms of aircraft and passenger traffic: the trend for five years shows a steady growth of aircraft and passenger movements.
 The data up to November 2005 shows a growth of 7.5% and 17.6% against figures in the year 2004.
Padampur is a village development committee in Chitwan District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal.
 At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 8884 people living in 1559 individual households.it was transferred in new location named Saguntol by Government of Nepal and completed with in 8 years i.e. from 2050 BS to 2058BS.
 previously it was at the lap of Rapati river and inside the Chitwan National Park .
 flood of Rapati river in monsoon season destroy farmers crops .
 wild animalS also harmed their crops .
 Transportation, electricity, road and educational facilities were beyond people's access.
 It was known as one of the remote areas of the Chitwan district .
 In a view of agriculture, It was the best place for farmers .
 After the new dawn of democracy in 2046, New government was asked to shift this village for peoples safety and conservation of forest and wild animal .
 The cabinet of Girija Prasad Koirala was assured to shift in a convenience place soon and started the task immediately .
 The late Sailaja Acharya visited the people and understood their griefs and proposed to shift it next to Sagoontol near Jutpani VDC .
 This was a very difficult task to accomplish successfully .
People from the Western Chitwan were stood against it but government took bold decision in favour of people of Padampur .
 Now it is about 2.5  km east to Bharatpur, district headquarters of Chitwan .
 Electricity, roads and transportation facility are comparatively better here .
 2800 house holds were there now .
According to the 2001 census, the total population of the VDC was 11336 with total households 2137 (Immigration increased rapidly after relocation by almost 50% with in 10 years reaching 3,231 households consisting 14,924 people).
 Tharus are the dominant ethnic group with 45.89% of the total VDC population.
 Brahman, Kshetri, Tamang, Gurung and Newar are other castes here.
 Mainly banana, maize and oil are farmed here.
 Except ward no 1 there are deep tubewells to Irrigate farmlands.
 Poultry, dairy, epiculture, mushroom farming and goat keeping have great potentials here.
 A campus, A higher secondary school, a secondary boarding school and other 7 primary and lower secondary schools are providing education here.
 Health post,and Post office are too doing their best for providing services to locals .
 Drinking water is provided in better and modern way .
 pipelines of drinking water are available within all roads (113 km) of Padampur.
 An NGO veterinary office is also serving and helping farmers .
 Since last 5 years this VDC is starting to be known as one of pocket areas of commercial banana farming of the nation.
 Nobody is landless here and this is the special feature here.
 Padampur is very attractive location for migratory view and daily people are migrating here.
 it is like a colonial place for settlement of people .
 Government has sifted it in a well planned way and that's why it is the second model VDC of Nepal ( first is In Bardiya district).
Now this village has merged in Kalika Municipality and shares 4 wards in it i.e. kalika -9, kalika-10 ,kalika-11 and kalika-12 .
Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company (LCAN) (1988–2010) was a modern-day anthracite coal mining company headquartered in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, U.S. which acquired many of the 'Old Company' (LC&N) properties and re-launched the Lehigh Coal Companies brand in 1988.
 The LCAN ran strip mining operations in the Panther Creek Valley east of Lansford along U.S. Route 209; with vast properties dominating the coal areas of Tamaqua, Coaldale, and Lansford.
 These properties are largely the same real estate assets as were acquired in the Panther Creek Valley by the predecessors: the haphazard Lehigh Coal Mine Company (1792-1822) and the builders of the Lehigh Canal and first American blast furnaces, the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (Old Company, LC&N), which spearheaded the U.S. Industrial revolution.
 The new company was incorporated in 1988 acquiring LC&N assets after bankruptcy proceedings, taking the name of the original.