Nepal is situated between the area South and Central Asia ; geographical it lies between Longitude 80° 15' and 88°15' East and Latitude 26°20' and 30°10' North.
The country is bounded by India in the West, South and East.
Till 1959 Nepal was bounded in the North by Tibet.
In that year the Chinese invaded Tibet. The Dalai Lama and ten tousands of
Tibetian people took refuse to Nepal and India.
tibet became an autonomous provice of China. From that moment Nepal became a
buffer between the powerfull countries China and India.
The lenght of Nepal is, from West to East about 880 km, the width, from South to North varies from 144 to 240 km. It's has a surface from about 141.000 km.
The country is shaped like a long narrow rectangle. It rises from the populated TERAI in the South, at the northern edge of the Ganges plain on toward the Siwalik hills, the southermost of the Himalayan mountains. Some of these rise out the plain to a height of 1800 m. They are covered with rain forest and are wild and deserted.
Just to the North lies the MAHABHARAT Chain, with peaks as high as 3.000 m. The Mahabharat country is very steep and not well populated.
Beyond lie the MIDLANDS, the heart and soul of the counry, protected in the North by the HIGH HIMALAYANS.
It's elevation, which varies from 2 to 6000 feet, affords a climate to the growing of a varied crop. The mean January temperature of Kathmandu is 12° C and in July about 24° C.
Here in the Midlands live the most ancient of the Nepalese people and by far the largest percentage of the entie population.
Then rise the great griants - a seemingly
impenetrable fortress against the world to the North. The only means of acces
are the valleys arround the deep gorges of the great Himalayan rivers.
The Himalayan chain extends for about 1.250 miles from Kashmir in the west to
BURMA in the east and separates the tropical Indian subcontinent from the
central Asiatic plateau.
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