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Kingdom of Nepal
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Capital: Kathmandu
Total Area: 54,363.18 sq mi,140,800.00 sq km,(slightly larger than Arkansas)
Population: 25,284,463 (July 2001 est.)
Estimated Population in 2050: 53,293,874
Languages: Nepali (official; spoken by 90% of the population), about a dozen other languages and about 30 major dialects,note: many in government and business also speak English (1995)
Literacy: 27.5% total, 40.9% male, 14% female (1995 est.)
Religions: Hinduism 86.2%, Buddhism 7.8%, Islam 3.8%, other 2.2%,note: only official Hindu state in the world (1995)
Life Expectancy: 58.65 male, 57.77 female (2001 est.)
Government Type: parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy
Currency: 1 Nepalese rupee (NR) = 100 paisa
GDP (per capita): $1,360 (2000 est.)
Industry: tourism, carpet, textile; small rice, jute, sugar, and oilseed mills; cigarette; cement and brick production
Agriculture: rice, corn, wheat, sugarcane, root crops; milk, water buffalo meat
Arable Land: 17%
Natural Resources: quartz, water, timber, hydropower, scenic beauty, small deposits of lignite, copper, cobalt, iron ore Detail Information:
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