Nepal is a mountainous county with about 83% of its total area consisting of mountains and hills, undulating slopes and river valleys. Remaining 17% is occupied by the flat land of the Terai. In general the altitude of land increases from south to north. It is as low as 61 meters in the Terai to as high as 8848 meters in the Himalayas.
Nepal has the latitude difference of about 4 degree and the average north south width is 193 kilo meter. We can hardly find such diversity in altitude elsewhere in the world within these small variations. The country has thousands of rivers flowing from north to south forming gorges, river basins and valleys...Read More