Holds eight of the world's fourteen peaks over 8,000 m, and its flag is the only non-rectangular national flag.
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Nepal
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ยท เคจเฅเคชเคพเคฒ
Asia
ยท Southern Asia
0Population
147.18Kkmยฒ of land
$1.07KGDP / person
KathmanduCapital
- ISO codes
- NP ยท NPL
- Density
- 194 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Nepali
- Currency
- Nepalese rupee (NPR)
- Dial code
- +977
- Internet domain
- .np
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 28.2980ยฐ N, 83.6400ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Nepalese
- UN region
- Southern Asia
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $30.64B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How Nepal stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
49th
of 242 ยท 0.37% of world population
Land area
96th
of 242 ยท 0.10% of world land
GDP per person
212th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
68th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Nepal
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 28,608,710 people, the 49th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.37 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 147,181 kmยฒ, making it the 96th largest country here - about 4.8 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 194 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Kathmandu, at 27.72ยฐ N, 85.31ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 895,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: China and India.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Kathmandu.
The currency is the Nepalese rupee (NPR, symbol โจ).
The official language is Nepali.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Kathmandu
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UTC+05:45
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Kathmandu
Bhaktapur
27.7186ยฐ N, 85.3147ยฐ E
895K
๐ Peaks
Mount Everest
8,849 m
Lhotse
8,516 m
Makalu
8,485 m
Cho Oyu
8,188 m
Dhaulagiri I
8,167 m
Manaslu
8,163 m
Annapurna I
8,091 m
Ama Dablam
6,812 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Everest Base Camp Trek
Adventure
Twelve days on foot from Lukla to 5,364 m, through Sherpa villages and across the Khumbu icefall's doorstep.
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with Nepal.