The Country Nepal

The small country located at south Asia between two giant nations China in the north and India in south,east and west sides.The country was initially a monarchy, but was declared a Federal Democratic Republic, through a bill passed by the Interim Parliament, on 28th December 2007. The declaration was officially implemented in the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly, which was held on 28th May 2008. A multi-cultural, multi-linguistic and multi-religious country, Nepal boasts of a varied landscape, ranging from Terai plains in the south to mountainous Himalayas in the north.Here are the fun and intersting facts of Nepal in the following lines:

Fun and interesting facts of Nepal

1. As majority people of Nepal are hindus,they are highly religious and speak Nepali as their national and official language and english and no. of various languages are also spoken here.

2. Majority of the people in Nepal are Hindus, followed by Buddhists and Muslims.

The main ethnic groups in Nepal include Chhettri, Brahman-Hill, Magar, Tharu, Tamang, Newar, Muslim, Kami and Yadav.

3. The capital of Nepal is Kathmandu as Nepal follows the system of ‘Federal Democratic Republic’.

4. Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, is located in Nepal.

5. Nepal's Flag is the only national flag in the world that is not quadrilateral in shape.

6. The modern state of Nepal was formed on 21st December 1768, after the ‘Unification of Nepal’ by Prithvi Narayan Shah.

7. Eight of the highest peaks of the world are situated in Nepal.Mount Everest (8,848 metres), the highest peak in the world, forms the highest point in Nepal.

8. Right from 1846 to 1951, Nepal was governed by hereditary Prime Ministers, who descended from Jung Bahadur Rana. It was in 1951 that dominance of the Nepalese crown was restored and a government was formed by the Congress Party.

9. Violence in the Royal Family of Nepal, said to be perpetrated by Crown Prince Dipendra, led to the death of the King and Queen, apart from the prince’s brother, sister, an uncle, and several aunts. Later, the prince shot himself too and died. Thereafter, the crown was assumed by Gyanendra, Dipendra’s uncle. Gyanendra declared a state of emergency in Nepal in February 2005, which lasted till April 2005, and assumed direct control of the country. The direct rule of King Gyanendra lasted till April 2006, after weeks of protest by the people.

10. The Parliament of Nepal restricted the political powers of the king, in May 2006. In December 2007, the Parliament of Nepal took the decision to abolish monarchy.

11. In Nepal, touching anything with your feet is considered as an offence.

The capital KATHMANDU

Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal.It is located at the central development region of the country in Bagmati zone.It was meant to be lake in ancient times and bodhisatva Manjushri cut the hill with his sword and made a passage for the flow of water which is now called Chovar.

Since it is the capital of Nepal there is residence of many ethnics and cultures but there is more resding of Newars as there was used to be newars only before the unification campaign of Prithvi Narayan Shah.It is located at the altitude of 1336m from the sea level having the spread of area 360km.It is the valley of Nepal as it is covered by hills all around it.

There are many places where one can have fun and pleasant moments for the nature lover and pilgrims.There are places like Nagarkot,kakani,Nagarjuna forest etc where one can extremely pleasant time and for the pilgrims there are temples like Pashupatinath temple, swayambhunath,Boudhanath which are also the great asset of Nepal.Also there are other attractions like Hanumandhoka palace,Kumari ghar,Jaisi dewal,Gokarna,chobhar,Dakhshinkali etc.

People of Kathmandu are also very friendly and cooperative who have good cultural knowledge but most people are illeterate which is the greatest problem of Kathmandu District.Also day by day people are getiing modernized which can be good as well as bad in context of Nepal.

lovely city pokhara

The lovely city situated in Gandaki zone of Kaski district in Nepal is Pokhara . It has the area of 11.6sq m and population of 200,000 above.The religions followed here are hindu,buddhist,christian,islam etc.Pokhara is meant to be one of the touris destination in Nepal as there are many such tourism areas where anyone can spend their leisure periods over here.There are peaks like Dhaulagiri,Machhapuchre ,Annapurna and Manaslu and also big rivers like Seti,Gandaki,Karnali etc.Besides these there are other tourism places like Mahe ndra cave,David's fall,fewa lake,Rara lake etc. The people here are very friendly and cooperative which is very helpful in developing our tourism industry in Nepal.There are still undiscovered places in that part of country.From each sector we should be aware of this pla ce and each and every person including government should take more efficient action to promte and develop and also to discover differnet places of POKHARA.Even Nepal Government is planing to make year 2011 as tourism year.But its not sufficient to promote this place as the word BEAUTY is fully explained here.

The Dream land

People often compare it as dream land as whoever visit this place once they will not forget its beauty and the wonderness o f the this place and the places inside it.Truly being nepali i feel proud enough that i still am unable to describe its beauty and the culture seen here are more fantasy to see and also to admire and to be part of it was an great experince.Thus this place is compared as dreamland.The lakes and other things are hypnotising each and every one of the visitor gone here once cannot forget its beauty and cluture ofcourse.We also should wish that year 2011 A.D is consider as tourism year so everyone should be careful should be of this place promotion although we are but it's not enough.As the nature is fully pleased to this place and has provided enough attractiveness to it for any one to be hypnotise.Thus this dreamland should be preseve and conserve and promoted widely for preserving our identity.As beautiful places are not only our image but, our identity too.Thus N'JOY THE BEUTY OF POKHARA AND GET DETAIL INFORMATION ABOUT IT ON THIS SITE.