Cities of Nepal

Nepal has too many cities. Its capital city is Kathmandu and situated middle part of country. Nepal's largest cities are: Kathmandu, Pokhara, Patan, Biratnagar, Birgunj, Dharan, Bharatpur, Janakpur, Dhangarhi and Butwal. Most of the cities situated in Terai region.

Tourism in Nepal

Nature has given plentiful tourism resources to Nepal. The natural scenery, high mountains, incomparable cultural heritage, art, culture and too many specialties have made Nepal a well-known destination in world tourism map with a distinct image of it. Almost world’s climate and ecosystem is available in this country, moreover cultural, geographical, ethnic and bio-diversities of the country allure international visitors to Nepal time and again, which truly substantiate the spirit of Nepal tourism brand; Naturally Nepal once is not enough ! “Welcome Nepal - Tourism Year 2011• is a three year program. The main objective of this program is to promote tourism sector of Nepal internationally, besides this program helps to promote the Nepalese culture, art, biodiversity and stakeholder business through E marketing.

Government of Nepal

President: Dr. Ram Baran Yadav
Vice President: Parmanand Jha
Prime Minister: Madhav Kumar Nepal
Chief Justice: Ram Prasad Shrestha
Chairman of Constituent Assembly: Subash Chandra Nemwang
Chief Secretary: Madhav Prasad Ghimire

CONSTITUTIONAL BODIES

Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA)
Acting Chief Commissioner: Lalit Bahadur Limbu
Auditor General: Bhadreshwar Upadhay
Acting Chief Election Commissioner: Nilkantha Uprety
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman: Kedar Nath Upadhyay
Chief of Army Staff Gen. Chhatra Man Singh Gurung
Nepal Police Inspector General Ramesh Chand Thakuri
Armed Police Force Inspector General Sanat Kumar Basnet
National Investigation Department (NID) Chief Ashok Dev Bhatta

MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES

Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Chairman: Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Nepali Congress President: Sushil Koirala
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Chairman: Jhala Nath Khanal

Languages of Nepal

Nepal has many ethnic groups and language. The official Language is Nepali. It has more than a hundred languages spoken. It is classified as an Indo-Aryan Language and is spoken as a mother tongue by approximately half of Nepal's population and as a second language by others. Other names for Nepali include Gorkhali/Gurkhali (“language of the Gurkhas”) as well as Parbatiya (“language of the mountains”). Nepali was originally known as Khaskura (“speech of the Khas”) an was spoken by rice farming Khas who settled in the Karnali Bheri basin. Today it is spoken throughout Nepal as well as in parts of Bhutan and India.

Maithili is one of the Indo-Aryan languages. Many view it as a dialect of Hindi and not a separate language. Limbu, a Tibeto-Burman language, spoken by the Limbu ethnic group. Limbu, call themselves yakthung and the Limbu language Yakthung Pan. Most Limbus can also speak Nepali fluently.
Its major languages (2001 census) is: Nepali 40%, Maithili 9%, Newari (3%), Tamang (5%), Tharu (5%), Magar (3%), Bantawa (1.4%), Gurung (1.3%), Limbu (1.2%) and the remaining languages are each spoken as mother tongue by less than one percent of the population.

Education in Nepal

In Nepal modern education began with the establishment of the first school in 1853; this was not for general people only for the members of the ruler families. For the general people began only after 1951. In the past 50 years, there has been a dramatic expansion of education facilities in the country. As a literacy was 48.2% (female: 34.6%, male: 62.2%) in the Population Census, 2001, up from about 5% in 1952–54. Now here is 26,000 schools (including higher secondary), 415 colleges, five universities, and two academies of higher studies.

School education includes primary level of grades 1–5, lower secondary and secondary levels of grades 6–8 and 9–10 respectively. Pre-primary level of education is available in some areas. Six years old is the prescribed age for admission into grade one. A national level School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination is conducted at the end of grade 10.

Grades 11 and 12 are considered as higher secondary level. Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) supervises higher secondary schools which are mostly under private management.

Higher education consists of bachelor, masters, and PhD levels. Depending upon the stream and subject, bachelors level may be of three to five years' duration. The duration of masters level is generally two years. Some universities offer programs like M Phil and post-graduate diplomas.

Geography of Nepal

Nepal is landlocked and mountains country in South Asia. It situated between Republic of India and People' Republic of China. Its northern part of People's Republic of China, it has 1,236 km and to eastern, southern and western bordered is Republic of India, it has 1,690 km borders. Itl is world's 93^rd largest country by land. It has 1,47,181 square kilometer area. Kathmandu is the capital and the country's largest city. It has rich geography; northern part has tallest mountains and world's tallest mountain Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) situated here, and its height 8,848 meter (29,028 feet)  and lowest point 70 meter Kanchan Kalan is eastern south part Jhapa District it's from sea level.

It has too many Natural resources like, Quartz, water, timber, hydropower, scenic beauty, small deposits of lignite, copper, cobalt, iron ore and Irrigated land 11,350 km² (1998 est.). in Nepal 25.4% of Nepal's land area, or about 36,360 km² Forests.

Nepalese People

Nepal is a multi-ethnic society with more than 40 types of different races, tribes, & ethnicity constituting a population of approximately 30 million. People in Nepal can be variously categorized according to altitude, religion, and ethnicity. 

These people carry a surname according their profession. Although Buddhists do not have systematic caste systems, some Buddhist Newars of Kathmandu have been carrying their surnames like Bajracharya, Gurubacharya, Tamrakar, Tuladhar which denoted their professions during medieval Nepal.

It has Brahmins (Bahun), Chetris, Newars, Sherpas, Magar, Gurung, Tamang, Rai, Limbu, Madhesis, Tharu, Rajbansi, Danuwar, Majhi, Manangi & Dolpo are main ethnic groups.