Nepal authoritatively the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a nation situated in South Asia. With a zone of 147,181 square kilometers (56,827 sq mi) and a populace of roughly 27 million, Nepal is the world's 93rd biggest nation by zone and the 41st most crowded nation. It is a landlocked nation situated along the Himalayas and circumscribed toward the north by China and toward the south, east, and west by India. Nepal is isolated from Bangladesh by the restricted Indian Siliguri Corridor and from Bhutan by the Indian condition of Sikkim. Kathmandu is the country's capital city and biggest city.

The uneven north of Nepal has eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including the most elevated point on Earth, Mount Everest . More than 250 tops more than 20,000 ft (6,096 m) above ocean level are situated in Nepal. The southern Terai locale is rich and moist.

Hinduism is drilled by around 81.3% of Nepalis, the most astounding rate of any nation. Buddhism is connected truly with Nepal and is rehearsed by 9% of its kin, trailed by Islam at 4.4%, Kiratism 3.1%, Christianity 1.4%, and animism 0.4%.[10] A huge bit of the populace, particularly in the slope area, might recognize themselves as both Hindu and Buddhist, which can be ascribed to the syncretic way of both beliefs in Nepal.

A government all through the vast majority of its history, Nepal was ruled by the Shah tradition of lords from 1768—when Prithvi Narayan Shah bound together its numerous little kingdoms—until 2008. 10 years in length Civil War including the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), trailed by weeks of mass dissents by all major political gatherings, prompted the 12-point assention of 22 November 2005. The resulting decisions for the first Nepali Constituent Assembly on 28 May 2008 overwhelmingly supported the annulment of the government and the foundation of an elected multiparty delegate majority rule republic. In spite of proceeding with political difficulties, this system stayed set up, with the second Nepali Constituent Assembly chose in 2013 with an end goal to make another constitution.