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Nepal is a landlocked country lying along the southern slopes of the Himalayan Range. The territory of Nepal covers an area of 147,181 square

kilometers stretching for five hundred miles from east to west and on average one hundred miles from north to south. It lies between 80 and 88 degrees east latitude and 26 and 30 degrees north longitude. The altitude ranges from 4877 metres to 8848 metres above the sea level. Nepal thus has a range of climatic zones encompassing almost all those found on earth - from sub tropical jungle to the arctic conditions of the high Himalayas and the arid zones of the Tibetan Plateau. The country is divided into three ecological regions; the Terai, the Hills and the Mountains.