Nepal Nepal is a small and mountainous kingdom wedged between the two great Asian powers of India and China, and this geographical location has been a determining factor in shaping Nepal's history and politics. Nepal is the only Hindu kingdom in...

(2001 est. pop. 25.3 million). The kingdom of Nepal is a landlocked nation, 140,800 square kilometers in area, surrounded by the Tibetan region of China to the north and India to the east, west, and south. Its capital is Kathmandu. Agriculture is its...

Nepal is a landlocked country, situated amid the Himalaya Mountains and surrounded by India in the east, west, and south and by China in the north. Civilization has flourished here under Buddhism since the sixth century BCE, in the Kathmandu Valley...

The Ranas were a powerful family that became the effective rulers of the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal from 1846 to 1951. They rose to prominence in the nineteenth century under Jang Bahadur Kunwar (1817–1877), who ruthlessly eliminated his rivals...

Nepal (Nepali: नेपाल [neˈpaːl] (help·info)) is a landlocked nation in South Asia, bordering the People's Republic of China (Tibet) to the north and India to the south, east and west. Nepal held distinct status of being the only official...

Highlights and Key Issues * Growth slowed for a second successive year to around 2% in FY2005/6 from 2.7% in 2004/05 as a result of the political impasse between the monarch and parliament last year. However, the reinstatement of parliament by King Gyanendra,...

"The Constitution specifies that the State shall not discriminate against citizens on grounds of religion, race, sex, caste, or ideology. However, there is still a caste system. Discrimination against lower castes, women remains common, especially in rural areas. Violence against women is a...