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नेपाल
Nepal
http://nepal.saarctourism.org/gifs/nepal-flag2.jpg
Capital & Largest City: Kathmandu
Official Language: Nepali*
Leader(s):

Absolute Monarch: Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev

Area: 147,181 square km
Population: 29,519,114
Gross Domestic Product (PPP): US$ 48,180,000,000
GDP per capita: US$ 1,632
Demonym: Nepali
Unification: December 12, 1768
Timezone: +5:45 UTC (no DST)
Currency: Nepali Rupee (NPR) (Rs), 68 NPR to 1 USD
Internet TLD: .np

((OOC: *I don't know any Nepali))

Geography

Location: Southern Asia between the Mongolian Empire and the Indian Confederacy

Climate: varies from cool summers and severe winters in north to subtropical summers and mild winters in south

Borders(km):

Total: 2,926

Mongolian Empire - 1,236
Indian Confederacy - 1,690


Elevation Extremes:

Lowest Point - 70 m
Highest Point - 8,850 m


Natural Resources: quartz, water, timber, hydropower, scenic beauty, small deposits of lignite, copper, cobalt, iron ore

Natural Hazards: severe thunderstorms, flooding, landslides, drought, and famine depending on the timing, intensity, and duration of the summer monsoons

Demographics

Age Structure:

0-14 - 38%
15-64 - 58.2%
65+ - 3.8%


Median Age: 20.7 years

Life Expectancy at birth: 60.94 years

Fertility Rate: 3.91 children born/woman

People living with HIV/AIDS: 61,000

Majour Infectuous Diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, japanese encephalitis, malaria

Ethnic groups: Chhettri 51%, Brahman-Hill 12.5%, Magar 7%, Tharu 6.6%, Tamang 5.5%, Newar 5.4%, Muslim 4.2%, Kami 3.9%, Yadav 3.9%

Religion: Hindu 85.1%, Buddhist 10.7%, Christian 4.2%

Communications

Telephone landlines: 595,800

Telephone mobile lines: 1,042,000,000

Radio stations: AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1

Television stations: 10

Internet Users: 249,400

Transportation

Airports: 10

Railways (km): 59 km (1 m gauge)

Roadways (km): 17,380; only 9,886 is paved

Economy

Labour Force: 11.11 million

Unemployment rate: 42%

Population below poverty line: 30.9%

Agricultural products: rice, corn, wheat, sugarcane, jute, root crops; milk, water buffalo meat

Industries: tourism, carpets, textiles; small rice, jute, sugar, and oilseed mills; cigarettes, cement and brick production

Electricity - production: 2.511 billion kWh
Electricity - consumption: 1.96 billion kWh
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh
Electricity - exports: 0.551 billion kWh

Oil - production: 0 bbl/day
Oil - consumption: 1,550 bbl/day
Oil - import: 1,550 bbl/day
Oil - export: 0 bbl/day
Oil reserves: 0 bbl

Natural gas - production: 0 cu m
Natural gas - consumption: 0 cu m
Natural gas - imports: 0 cu m
Natural gas - exports: 0 cu m
Natural gas reserves: 0 cu m

Current account balance: -1.568 billion

Exports: $830 million
Exports - commodities: carpets, clothing, leather goods, jute goods, grain

Imports: $2.398 billion
Imports - commodities: gold, machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer

Foreign debt: $3.07 billion