Nepal

                                                         INTRODUCTION


Nepal, officially Kingdom of Nepal, constitutional monarchy in South Asia. Locked within the rugged ranges of the Himalayas, Nepal is bounded by the Tibet regionof  China on the north and India on the south, East, and West. It was cut off from the rest of the world until the early 1950s, when a palace revolution and the subsequent overthrow of the autocratic Rana dynasty marked the begining of Nepal,s emergence into the modern world. Kathmandu is the capital and largest city.
Nepal covers an area of 147,181 sq km (56,827 sq km). It si divided into four tropographical zones: the Great Himalayas, the Middle Himalayas, the Outer Himalayas, and the Terai. The highest zone is located either wholly or partially in this area. These include Mount Everest(8,850 m/29,035 ft), Kanchenjunga (8,598 m/28,209 ft), Makalu (8,481 m/27,825 ft), Dhaulagiri (8,172 m/26,811 ft), and Annapurna (8,091 m/26,545 ft)