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Noted for its majestic Himalayas, which in Sanskrit
means the abode of snow, Nepal is very mountainous and hilly. Its
shape is roughly rectangular, about 650 kilometers long and about 200
kilometers wide, and comprises a total of 147,181 square kilometers of
land.
Nepal has great physical diversity, ranging from the
Tarai Plain--the northern rim of the Gangetic Plain situated at
about 300 meters above sea level in the south--to the almost
8,848-meter-high Mount Everest, locally known as Sagarmatha (its
Nepali name), in the north.
Eight of the top ten highest mountains in
the world are located in Nepal. Kangchenjunga, the world's third
highest peak is also located on its eastern border with Sikkim. |
