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Anything You Need to Know About Nepal

Anything You Need to Know About Nepal. By: Nicole Bloch. Nepal and the relation to sold.

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Anything You Need to Know About Nepal

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  1. Anything You Need to Know About Nepal By: Nicole Bloch

  2. Nepal and the relation to sold • Lakshmi is a thirteen year old girl that lives in a small village in Nepal with her family. Until, one day big showers came and ruined her family crop, so she had to go to India to work as a maid. When she got to India, her becoming a maid didn’t happen, but MUCH worse…

  3. Background information • Nepal is located in between India and China. • The capital is Kathmandu • The first settlers were Kirat people. • The Nepal Flag became the official • flag on December 16th, 1962. • The population is about 28,951,852 • since 2010. • The country is about the size of Arkansas • Nepal holds Mount Everest. The tallest mountain on earth, and its height is 29,035 ft.

  4. king • Between 1846 – 1951, Nepal has been ruled by the Rana family. The Rana family only had a Prime Minister. Which meant no king. • Then in 1951, the king took over. • MahendraBirBikram Shah became king in 1955. After dying of a heart attack, Prince Birendra took over at age 26. • On June 1st, 2001 King Birendra was shot and killed by his son, Crown Prince Dipendra. Then Crown Prince shot his mother because he was angry with the wife she had picked for him. He also shot several other royal members before committing suicide. • The new ruler of Nepal is Prince Gyanendra. The younger brother of King Birendra.

  5. Nepal flag • Nepal is the only country to not have a rectangular or square • flag. • The two symbols are the moon and sun. It is said that the • nation will last as long as the sun and moon is there on • earth. • The blue border represents peace. • The red represents rhododendron, the color of the national • flower. • The curved moon represents the royal house • The sun represents the Rana dynasty.

  6. Mountain in Nepal. Didn’t give an actual location. pictures Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, who is sitting a pond of water with a sword. This is Lake at GupaPokhari, Nepal with Makalu Himal in the background. Mount Everest

  7. Fun facts • National Bird: Daphne • National Flower: Rhododendron Arboreum • National Anthem: SayaunThungaPhoolKa • Moto: Mother and Motherland are Greater than • Heaven • Two Main Religions: Hinduism and Buddhism • People who live in the valleys of Khumbu, Eastern Nepal, are called Sherpa. • The animal that helps people carry around things in the mountains of Nepal are yaks.

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