About Nepal
Nepal is a landlocked country that is located between China and India and is approximately 147,181 square kilometres. The capital of Nepal is Kathmandu, and the estimated population as of July 2014 was estimated to be 30,986,975. Nepal is broken up into three geographic areas, the himalayan region, which makes up approximately 15% of the total land, the hilly region, which makes up 68% of total land and the Terai region, which is approximately 17% of total land. Within Kathmandu, during the rainy seasons, which occurs between June and August, on average it rains between 200-375 millimeters. During the year, the average rainfall is 1300 millimeters in the capital of Nepal. Natural hazards that effects agriculture and the people of Nepal is earthquakes, drought, flooding and landslides.
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Nepal is one poorest counties in the world, ranking 197th in Gross Domestic Product, and as of 2008, over a quarter of the population lived below the poverty line. The currency in Nepal is called Nepalese rupees which for ever dollar Canadian is 101 Nepalese rupees. Approximately 46% of the people in Nepal are unemployed and over 80% of the working population in Nepal are involved in agriculture. The staple crops of Nepalese people are wheat rice and maize, and rice make up 1.5 million hectares of the total cultivated land in Nepal. Wheat and Maize is grown on approximately the same hectares of land, and makes up roughly 1 million and 1.5 million metric tons of crop.
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