NEPAL Tourism

The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, a landlocked country in South Asia. It borders touch to China in the north and India in the south, east and west, while Bangladesh is located within only 27 km (17 mi) of its south-eastern tip and Bhutan.

It bordered by the Indian states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Sikkim and in north by Tibet.

Due to along the southern slopes of the Himalayan mountain range , Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills and hosting to eight of the 10 highest peaks in the world, including Mount Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, and Kanchenjunga (on the border to Sikkim).

Kathmandu is the capital and the largest city.

HISTORY OF NEPAL

The earliest known modern human remains in South Asia date to about 30,000 years ago and discovered archaeological evidence of human settlements in Nepal dates to around the same time.

By 4000 BCE, the Tibeto-Burmese people had reached Nepal either directly across the Himalayas from Tibet or via Myanmar and north-east India or both. Another possibility for the first people to have inhabited Nepal is the Kusunda people.

By the late Vedic period, Nepal was being mentioned in various Hindu texts, such as the late Vedic Atharvaveda Pariśiṣṭa and in the post-Vedic Atharvashirsha Upanishad.

The Gopal Bansa was the oldest dynasty to be mentioned in various texts as the earliest rulers of the central Himalayan kingdom known by the name 'Nepal'.

In the middle of the first millennium BCE {where in about 500 B.C.E.} Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born in Lumbini in southern Nepal. Queen Maya Devi is said to have given birth to Siddhartha Gautama, better known as Buddha.

Nepal became a federal republic on 28 May 2008 and was formally renamed the 'Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal' ending the 200-year-old reign of the Shah monarchs.