Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
Capital : Kathmandu
Official language: Nepali (but there are about a hundred other living languages spoken in Nepal)
Unification: Republic (since 2008)
President: Ram Baran Yadav
Area: 147,181 km²
Population: 29,519,114 inhabitants, divided in about one hundred Ethnic groups
Currency: Rupee (NPR)
Motto: "Mother and Motherland are Greater than Heaven"
The country have few natural resources, except the hydro-electric power, and whole regions are underequipped in infrastructures.
More than fifty old independent kingdoms were annexed between 1769 and 1815 by the king Shah in the little realm of Gorkha, which is located in the center of Nepal.
Capital : Kathmandu
Official language: Nepali (but there are about a hundred other living languages spoken in Nepal)
Unification: Republic (since 2008)
President: Ram Baran Yadav
Area: 147,181 km²
Population: 29,519,114 inhabitants, divided in about one hundred Ethnic groups
Currency: Rupee (NPR)
Motto: "Mother and Motherland are Greater than Heaven"
The country have few natural resources, except the hydro-electric power, and whole regions are underequipped in infrastructures.
More than fifty old independent kingdoms were annexed between 1769 and 1815 by the king Shah in the little realm of Gorkha, which is located in the center of Nepal.
