Articles in Nepal ( 268 )

268 Articles of interest in Nepal

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  • Western Cwm

    Often called the Valley of Silence, the Western Cwm (cwm (/km/) is Welsh for a bowl shaped valley/cirque) is a broad, flat, gently undulating glacial valley basin terminating at the foot of the Lhotse Face of Mount Everest.

  • Rongbuk Monastery

    Rongbuk Monastery (Tibetan: རྫ་རོང་ཕུ་དགོན་, Wylie: rdza rong phu dgon; other spellings include Rongpu, Rongphu, Rongphuk and Rong sbug (Chinese: 絨布寺; pinyin: Róngbù Sì)), also known as Dzarongpu or Dzarong, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Ny…

  • North Col

    The North Col (Chinese: 北坳; pinyin: Běi Ào; Tibetan: Chang La) refers to the sharp-edged pass carved by glaciers in the ridge connecting Mount Everest and Changtse in Tibet, China.

  • Myanglung

    Myanglung (Nepali: म्याङलुङ) is a municipality and district headquarters of Terhathum District of Kosi Zone in eastern Nepal. The municipality is situated at an elevation of about 1500 metres above sea level. Myanglung was converted into a municipal…

  • Gosaikunda

    Gosaikunda (गोसाइकुन्ड), also spelled Gosainkunda and Gosain Kunda is an alpine freshwater oligotrophic lake in Nepal's Langtang National Park, located at an altitude of 4,380 m (14,370 ft) in the Rasuwa District with a surface of 13.8 ha (34 acres)…

  • Gokyo Lakes

    Gokyo Lakes are oligotrophic lakes in Nepal's Sagarmatha National Park, located at an altitude of 4,700–5,000 m (15,400–16,400 ft) above sea level. These lakes are the world’s highest freshwater lake system comprising six main lakes, of which Thonak…

  • Annapurna Sanctuary

    The Annapurna Sanctuary is a high glacial basin lying 40 km directly north of Pokhara. This oval-shaped plateau sits at an altitude of over 4000 metres, and is surrounded by a ring of mountains, the Annapurna range, most of which are over 7000 metre…

  • Pokhara Airport

    Pokhara Airport (IATA: PKR, ICAO: VNPK), is a regional airport serving Pokhara in Nepal. The airport was established on 4 July 1958 and is operated by the government (Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal). It offers regular connections to Kathmandu and…

  • Bagmati Zone

    Bagmati (Nepali: बागमती अञ्चल Listen  Bāgmatī Añcal), is one of the fourteen zones of Nepal, which is named after the Bagmati River. It is in the Central Development Region of Nepal.

  • Madhesh

    The Madhesh (Nepali: Madhes) is "the low-lying land of Gangetic plain." The region's name in Urdu is ترای tarāī meaning "lands lying at the foot of a watershed" or "on the banks of a river; low ground flooded with water, valley, basin, marshy ground…

  • Kaski District

    Kaski District (Nepali: कास्की जिल्ला  Listen , a part of Gandaki Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia.

  • Rupandehi District

    Rupandehi District(Nepali: रुपन्देही जिल्ला Listen , a part of Lumbini Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal and covers an area of 1,360 km². The district headquarters is Siddharthanagar .

  • Morang District

    Morang District (Nepali: मोरङ जिल्ला  listen ), a part of Koshi Zone in Terai plain, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia.

  • Gandaki Zone

    Gandaki zone (Nepali: गण्डकी अञ्चल Listen , is one of the fourteen zones of Nepal, located in the Western Development Region. It is named as Sapta Ganadaki after the seven tributaries (Kali Gandaki, Trishuli, Budhi Gandaki, Marsyangdi, Madi, Seti Ga…

  • Nawalparasi District

    Nawalparasi District (Nepali: नवलपरासी जिल्ला Listen , a part of Lumbini Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Ramgram (Parasi) as its district headquarters, covers an area of 2,1…

  • Khumbu Glacier

    The Khumbu Glacier is located in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal between Mount Everest and the Lhotse-Nuptse ridge. With elevations of 4,900 m (16,100 ft) at its terminus to 7,600 m (24,900 ft) at its source, it is the world's highest glacie…

  • Rongbuk Glacier

    The Rongbuk Glacier (simplified Chinese: 绒布冰川; traditional Chinese: 絨布冰川; pinyin: Róngbù Bīngchuān) is located in the Himalaya of southern Tibet. Two large tributary glaciers, the East Rongbuk Glacier and the West Rongbuk Glacier, flow into the main…

  • Mera Peak

    Mera Peak is a mountain in the Mahalangur section, Barun sub-section of the Himalaya and administratively in Nepal's Sagarmatha Zone, Solukhumbu District. At 6,476 metres (21,247 ft) it is classified as a trekking peak.

  • Lower Himalayan Range

    The Mahabharata Range (Nepali: महाभारत श्रृंखला mahābhārat shrinkhalā) – also called the Lesser Himalaya – is a major east-west mountain range with elevations 1,500 to 2,700 m (5,000 to 9,000 feet) along the crest, paralleling the much higher Great …

  • Taplejung District

    Taplejung District (Nepali: ताप्लेजुङ जिल्ला  Listen  is the Mountain district of Mechi Zone in Nepal's Eastern Development Region. The district covers 3,646 km2 (1,408 sq mi). The 2011 census counted 127,461 population.

  • Karnali Zone

    Karnali (Nepali: कर्णाली अञ्चल Listen , is one of the fourteen zones located in the Mid-Western Development Region of Nepal.

  • Janakpur Zone

    Janakpur (Nepali: जनकपुर अञ्चल  Listen ), is one of the fourteen zones of Nepal, reaching from the Indian border in the south to the Tibetan border in the north and Sagarmatha Zone in the east and Bagmati and Naryani Zones in the west.

  • Dolpo

    Dolpo (Standard Tibetan: དོལ་པོ ) is a high-altitude culturally Tibetan region in the upper part of the Dolpa District of western Nepal, bordered in the north by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Part of the region lies in Shey Phoksundo Nationa…

  • Dhading District

    Dhading District (Nepali: धादिङ जिल्ला Listen , a part of Bagmati Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia.

  • Bara District

    Bara District (Nepali: बारा जिल्ला  Listen ) lies the Narayani Zone. It is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia.

  • Kirtipur

    Kirtipur (Nepali: कीर्तिपुर, Nepal Bhasa: किपू Kipu) is an ancient city in Nepal. It is located in the Kathmandu Valley 5 km south-west of the city of Kathmandu.

  • Jomsom Airport

    Jomsom Airport (IATA: JMO, ICAO: VNJS) is an airport serving Jomsom, a town in the Mustang District of the Dhawalagiri Zone in Nepal. It serves as the gateway to Muktinath temple, which is a popular pilgrimage for Nepalis and Indians.

  • Dolakha District

    Dolakha, often known as Dolkha or Dholkha(Nepali: दोलखा जिल्ला Listen , a part of Janakpur Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country situated in Southeast Asia. The district, with Charikot as its district headquarters…

  • Makwanpur District

    Makwanpur District(Nepali: मकवानपुर जिल्ला Listen , a part of Narayani Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia.

  • Little Angels' School

    Little Angels' School is a private school system based in Hattiban, Lalitpur District of Nepal, Kathmandu. The school offers A-Levels and +2 facilities and education up to the SLC. The school motto is "One goal, one mission.

  • Lamjung District

    Lamjung District (Nepali: लमजुङ जिल्ला  Listen ), a part of Gandaki Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Besisahar as its district headquarters, covers an area of 1,692 km² and h…

  • Dang District, Nepal

    Dang Deukhuri is located in Inner Terai, some 280 km west of the capital city, Kathmandu in Rapti Zone of Nepal's Mid-Western Region. The district covers 2,955 km² with a population (2011) of 548,141. Ghorahi (formerly Tribhuvannagar) is the distric…