Nepal

Nepal

Nepal ranks 109th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Angola, Bangladesh, and Kyrgyzstan. Memorable people born in present day Nepal include Gautama Buddha, Tenzing Norgay, and Sita. Memorable people who died in Nepal include Maya, Śuddhodana, and George Mallory. Nepal has been the birth place of many politicians and religious figures and the death place of many politicians and mountaineers.

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, and India to the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the Indian state of Sikkim. Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and the largest city. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural state, with Nepali as the official language. Read more on Wikipedia