Hello again…here is the country my squadmates and I will be ministering in during the month of October!! Enjoy 🙂
- Nepal is slightly bigger than Arkansas
- It’s population is 28,563,377, 42nd most populated country in the world.
- Kathmandu is the nation’s capital and the country’s largest metropolitan city.
- Nepal is home to Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth (above sea level) at 8,850 m or 29,029 ft.
- The Nepalese monarchy ended and a cabinet system of government was implemented in 1951.
- The currency used is the Nepalese Rupee, and it’s exchange rate is about 71:1 US Dollar.
- Nepal’s exports are mainly carpets, clothing, leather goods, jute goods and grain
- Nepal is the only official Hindu country in the world. 80.6% of the population is Hindu, 10.7% are Buddhist, 4.2% are Muslim and 3.6% are Kirant. Kirant is an indigenous religion that reveres nature and practices ancestral worship.
- Nepal as the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who, as the Gautam Buddha founded the Buddhist faith.
- 52% of the population is illiterate.
- The Nepalese are descendants of three major migrations from Asia: Tibet, North Burma and Yunnan
- A typical Nepalese meal is dal-bhat-tarkari. Dal is a spicy lentil soup, served over bhat (boiled rice), served with tarkari (curried vegetables) together with achar (pickles) or chutni (spicy condiment).
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