Hello,
We are Samarth College Students
Batch 2014-15.
We wish you to take Tour of Nepal with us--
We welcome you & we are
Dhanwate Amruta &
Khandbahale Suresh ---- Namaste Ji !!!
intro. of Nepal
Nepal, officially Kingdom of
Nepal, constitutional monarchy in South Asia. Locked within the rugged
ranges of the Himalayas, Nepal is bounded by the Tibet region of 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
beginning of Nepal’s emergence into the modern world. Kathmandu is the
capital and largest city.
LAND AND RESOURCES
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Nepal covers an area of
147,181 sq km (56,827 sq mi). It is divided into four topographical
zones: the Great Himalayas, the Middle Himalayas, the Outer Himalayas,
and the Tarāi. The highest zone is the Great Himalayas, in northern
Nepal. Eight of the ten highest mountains in the world are located
either wholly or partially in this area. These include Mount Everest
(8,850 m/29,035 ft), Kānchenjunga (8,598 m/28,209 ft), Makālu (8,481
m/27,825 ft), Dhaulāgiri (8,172 m/26,811 ft), and Annapūrna 1 (8,091
m/26,545 ft).
To the south of the Great
Himalayas are the Middle Himalayas, dominated in Nepal by the
Mahābhārat Range, with peaks averaging less than 3,000 m (9,900 ft).
Several rivers run through Nepal’s Middle Himalayas including the Seti,
Karnali, Bheri, Kali Gandaki, Trisuli, Sun Kosi, Arun, and Tamur. In the
Middle Himalayan zone most rivers converge and form four main river
systems: the Karnali, Narayani, Gandaki, and Kosi, which traverse the
Mahābhārat Range through deep gorges, making navigation difficult or
impossible.
South of the Middle Himalayas
lies the Siwālik Range of the Outer Himalayas, with an average
elevation of about 1,000 to 2,000 m (about 3,300 to 6,600 ft). This area
of Nepal has a number of flat valleys well suited to agriculture.
The Tarāi, a generally
flat, fertile lowland, is the southernmost topographic zone in Nepal.
Much of this area comprises the northern extension of the Gangetic Plain
of India. Rivers rising in the Himalayas emerge in the Tarāi and
continue southward, some of them becoming tributaries of the Ganges in
northern India. The Tarāi is susceptible to flooding, which occurs
regularly with the summer monsoon runoff from the mountains. The fertile
soils of the Tarāi make up a major agricultural area where nearly half
the country’s population lives.
