Definitions for Nepal
nəˈpɔl, -ˈpɑl, -ˈpæl, neɪ-nepal

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1. Nepal, Kingdom of Nepalnoun

   a small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China

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1. Nepalnoun

   A country in South Asia between China and India. Official Name: Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.

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1. Nepal

   Nepal (English: ; Nepali: नेपाल [neˈpal]), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a country in South Asia. It is mainly in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It is the 49th largest country by population and 93rd largest country by area. It is landlocked, and borders China in the north and India in the south, east and west, while Bangladesh is located within only 27 km (17 mi) of its southeastern tip and Bhutan is separated from it 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 capital and the largest city. Nepal is a multiethnic country with Nepali as the official language. The name "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic period of the Indian subcontinent, the era in ancient India when Hinduism was founded, the predominant religion of the country. In the middle of the first millennium BCE, Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born in Lumbini in southern Nepal. Parts of northern Nepal were intertwined with the culture of Tibet. The centrally located Kathmandu Valley is intertwined with the culture of Indo-Aryans, and was the seat of the prosperous Newar confederacy known as Nepal Mandala. The Himalayan branch of the ancient Silk Road was dominated by the valley's traders. The cosmopolitan region developed distinct traditional art and architecture. By the 18th century, the Gorkha Kingdom achieved the unification of Nepal. The Shah dynasty established the Kingdom of Nepal and later formed an alliance with the British Empire, under its Rana dynasty of premiers. The country was never colonized but served as a buffer state between Imperial China and British India. Parliamentary democracy was introduced in 1951, but was twice suspended by Nepalese monarchs, in 1960 and 2005. The Nepalese Civil War in the 1990s and early 2000s resulted in the establishment of a secular republic in 2008, ending the world's last Hindu monarchy. The Constitution of Nepal, adopted in 2015, affirms Nepal as a secular federal parliamentary republic divided into seven provinces. Nepal was admitted to the United Nations in 1955, and friendship treaties were signed with India in 1950 and the People's Republic of China in 1960. Nepal hosts the permanent secretariat of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), of which it is a founding member. Nepal is also a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Bay of Bengal Initiative. The military of Nepal is the fifth largest in South Asia; it is notable for its Gurkha history, particularly during the world wars, and has been a significant contributor to United Nations peacekeeping operations.

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1. nepal

   Nepal is a landlocked country located in South Asia, mainly in the Himalayas range between China (to the north) and India (to the south, east, and west). It is known for its diverse geography, which includes fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Its capital city is Kathmandu. The country is known for its multi-ethnic, multicultural and multi-religious society. Nepal's primary religions are Hinduism and Buddhism. It is also the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha.

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1. Nepal

   Nepal, officially the Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. With an area of 147,181 square kilometres and a population of approximately 27 million, Nepal is the world's 93rd largest country by land mass and the 41st most populous country. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India. Specifically, the Indian states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, and Sikkim border Nepal, while across the Himalayas lies the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. The mountainous north of Nepal has eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including the highest point on Earth, Mount Everest, called Sagarmatha in Nepali. It contains more than 240 peaks over 20,000 ft above sea level. The southern Terai region is fertile and humid. Hinduism is practised by about 81% of Nepalis, making it the country with the highest percentage of Hindu followers; Buddhism is linked historically with Nepal and is practiced by 9%, Islam by 4.4%, Kirat 3%, Christianity 1.4%, and animism 0.4%.

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1. Nepal

   an independent native State in North India, occupying a narrow mountainous territory along and including the southern slopes of the Himalayas, which separate it from Thibet; consists mainly of valleys and intervening mountain ridges, among which dwell various hill tribes, the dominant race being the hardy Goorkhas (q. v.).

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. NEPAL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Nepal is ranked #29604 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Nepal surname appeared 796 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Nepal.
   
   90.5% or 721 total occurrences were Asian.
   3.6% or 29 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.6% or 21 total occurrences were White.
   2.5% or 20 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Asia
   • Asian Country

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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Anagrams for Nepal »

1. panel

2. penal

3. plane

4. plena

5. Alpen

How to pronounce Nepal?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say Nepal in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Nepal in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Nepal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Nepal in a Sentence

1. Alan Polivnick:

   If you look at all the other countries that have red flags, Thailand is the only one other than Nepal in this region, and there will be concerns raised about this.

2. Blanche Greene-Cramer:

   It could be in the US, or it could be in Liberia, or it could be in Nepal.

3. John Ging:

   The government of Nepal has rightly shifted the focus of its efforts from immediate relief to longer term recovery and reconstruction, but this must not come at the expense of families who still require life-saving assistance, backlogs of essential shelter materials continue at Kathmandu airport and the Indian border due to bureaucratic impediments. This is delaying aid reaching 100,000 families who require urgent shelter assistance as the monsoon season begins.

4. Jesse Hartness:

   In Nepal, you already have more than 50% of children malnourished, this was already a nutritional emergency.

5. Mike Moniz:

   I had a plane ticket back to Colorado and a plane ticket back to Kathmandu, and my dad was like, 'Matt, you have a choice' -- (and) I chose Nepal.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Nepal
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nepal
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Nepal
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Nepal
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Nepal