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The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is located in South Asia in the Himalayas but includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

Nepal has the 49th largest population in the world and 93rd largest country by geography. Nepal is landlocked and borders China in the north and India in every other direction. 

Nepal is best known for having eight of the world’s ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth!  

Nepal is a multiethnic country with Nepali as the official language. According to the census 2011 the total population of Nepal is 26,494,504 and it reported that the religion with the largest number of followers in Nepal was Hinduism (81.3% of the population), followed by Buddhism (9%); the remaining were Islam (4.4%), Kirant 3.1%), Christianity (1.4%) and Prakriti or nature worship (0.5%). 

Nepal was never colonized and was ruled by kings of different dynasties. Democracy was introduced in 1951 AD, but was suspended twice by Nepalese monarchs, in 1960 and then 2005. The Nepalese Civil War in the 1990s and early 2000s resulted in the establishment of a secular Republic in 2008, ending the world’s last Hindu monarchy. The Constitution, adopted in 2015, affirms Nepal as a secular federal parliamentary republic divided into seven provinces.

Nepal experienced civil war for nearly 10 years from 1996 to 2006 killing 17,000 people. More recently, The country experienced a major earthquake in 2015 that killed nearly 9,000 people and injured nearly 22,000. After the 6 months of the earthquake, Nepal then faced a blockade by India. These incidents combined profoundly affected the country economically, resulting in an increase in problems like poverty, human trafficking, abuses, violence, and migration.