Name: Geography Now! NEPAL
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T09:30:39.000Z
Duration: 16 min 6 s
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"You made a mistake. Buddha was not born in India. He was born in Lumbini, which is in Nepal."

Too, which many of the Indian subscribers were like:

"Yeah, but Buddhist texts say he grew up in Kapilavatsu for the first twenty nine years of his life

which is probably in Piprahwa, which is like a half a mile away from the Nepali border."

"Lies! Kapilavatsu is most likely in modern-day Tilaurakot."

"Okay. Well, even if that was true, it was during the Mahajanapada area.

Modern-day Nepal wasn't even established. So does it really count for Nepal?"

Yeah, this is kind of a big deal for them.

Everybody I'm your host Barb's. Alright. So what do you know about Nepal?

Nepal is often called the "Roof of the world".

About 75% of the entire country is in the highest mountain chain on Earth.

This means they have a very interesting civil layout.

The country is landlocked located in South Asia, sandwich right in between India and China, locked away predominantly within the Himalayan mountain range.

The country is divided into 7 provinces, only 3 of which have actual names,

whereas the remaining four are just called "Province" with the corresponding number.

Some of these provinces have proposed names, but as of 2019, they are not yet official.

Number 4 is skipped because they gave Gandaki a name back in 2018 when it used to be province 4.

Ehh, paper work is hard. Plus it might get a new name soon.

Keep in mind, the province subdivision is relatively new up, until 2015, they actually had 14 zones

which even though they were displaced, they are still used today for license plates.

The capital, Kathmandu, is located in Province 3, although it is not the capital of the province, Hetauda is.

The country's largest busiest and only International Airport is Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International

However, to relieve capacity constraints due to high tourism, work is being done to extend and make three more inner national hubs:

Nij-Gadn, Pokhara, and Gautama Buddha Airport.

they have the most dangerous airport in the world at Tenzing Hillary or "Lukla" Airport, in which the runway runs off a cliff.

So basically, if you don't build up enough momentum and become airborne,

Nepal has always kind of been like the "buffer" between the two giants, India and China.

This in return has been both a blessing and a curse.

Blessing, in that nobody could really touch them, and therefore they remained one of the few countries that were never colonized.

This in return has made Nepal's land transport network very unique.

Multiple roads enter into Nepal from India and China.

But if you want to get to the economic hub, Kathmandu,

you have to go into the heart of the mountains, and your options are limited only to a few main highways:

and the HO3 which goes into Zhangmu-Zhen, Tibet, China.

you'll find Nepal's only disputed area, the Kalapani territory.

Basically, it was a byproduct of the 1962 border war with India and China.

Things got messy, and to this day, Nepal claims that the river to the west should be their border

but India claims that the ridge line to the east should be theirs.

there are tons of cool places to check out in case if you decide to visit. Such as:

The city of Pokhara is kind of like the tourism capital

So many religious sites like these temples

and probably the most notable sites being Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha

Yeah, lots of things were built and happened here in the mountains.

Mountains make a great fortification against outside forces, especially when they are really tall.

Let's talk more about the mountains, shall we?

Nepal's physical land makeup is kind of like the share price of Apple Stock in the beginning of the 2000s.

First of all, Nepal is located right at the start of the Himalayan mountains, the tallest range on Earth

which was basically formed by the Indian tectonic plates smashing into the Eurasian plate.

The collision is still occurring to this day

which means that the Himalayas grow about 2.4 inches or 6.1 centimeters every year.

This means that every new person to reach the summit temporarily becomes a world record holder.

Obviously, you all know the highest point can be found here too:

Mount Everest, or "Sagamatha", the tallest mountain in the world shared with China at nearly 9,000 meters high.

Keep in mind, 8 of the 10 tallest mountains in the world are actually found in Nepal as well.

Also keep in mind, due to the tectonic plate convergence, the country is subject to occasional earthquakes.

One of the most well-documented ones being a 7.8 magnitude quake with aftershocks hitting the capital destroying ancient sites back in 2015.

In addition, it triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest killing 21 people,

making it the deadliest in Mount Everest history.

The Himalayas are just one of three regions of the country though.

Below the Himalayan region lies the Pahad, a lower mountain region in the Green Zone, that generally does not get snow and fosters fertile valleys and rivers.

Below this is the final region, the Terai, the lowest point in Nepal located in the greater Gangetic plain that extends into northern India and Bangladesh.

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