Monday, February 20, 2017

Geo-Political Division Nepal


Geo-Political Division Nepal

Nepal has diverse and unique geo-ecological and geo-political setting. This unique geo-political division manily follows the physical setting of the country. Geo-politically, the country is divided as the Mountain districts, the Hill districts and the Tarai districts.

Out of 75 districts, 16 are mountain districts that are located in the northern part of the country. These districts cover 35 percent area. These districts are remote and marginal in terms of linkage and agricultural production. However, these districts have very beautiful landscape and various natural resources.

There are 39 districts in the Hill region that cover 42 percent area of the country. this belt ranges from 600 to 3000 meters elevation. Various groups of people and different types of economic activities are found in this region. This region is most diverse in terms of its physical, social, economical and cultural characteristics.

The Tarai region lies below 600m elevation. There are 20 districts that cover 23 percent area of the country. This is the extecsive flat land formed by the alluvial deposit and thus very fertile.


Wednesday, February 15, 2017

POLITICAL Nepal

POLITICAL NEPAL
For the administrative purpose, Nepal is divided into Development Region, Zone, District, Village Development Committee (VDC)/Municipality. At present, there are five development regions, 14 zones, 75 districts, 217 municipalities and 3157 Village Development Committee. Each district is further divided into ilakas. Similarly, each VD is divided into 9 wards but municipal area is divided upto 35 wards. For the parliamentary election, the country is divided into 205 constituencies.

          The Eastern Development Region (EDR) has 3 zones and 16 districts, the Central Dev. Region (CDR) has 3 zones and 19 districts, the Western Dev. Region (WDR) has 3 zones and 16 districts, Mid-Western Dev. Region (MWDR) has also 3 zones and 15 districts and the Far-Western Dv. Region (FWDR) has 2 zones and 9 districts.

          Among the development regions, MWDR is the largest in terms of area and the FWDR is the smallest. The Karnali zone is the largest and the mahakali zone is the smallest in terms of  area. In the case of districts, Dolpa is the largest whereas Bhaktapur is the smallest district in area.


          Each development region, zone, district and Municipality/VDC has its own administrative centre that coordinates the admistrative and development activities. Kathmandu is the capital of  Nepal and lies in the CDR. 


Saturday, February 11, 2017

Physical Nepal

Physical Nepal :
       



Nepal has diverse a unique physical features. There are basically three major types of physical features, i.e. the Mountain, Hill and Tarai horizontally distributed from north to south. The Tarai belt is an extensive flat land that extends from the far east to the far west. The hill consists river basins, valley, tar, upland slopes with various types of physical features. The mountain lies in the northern most part of the country. It has very beautiful mountain peaks of various elevations.

This arrangement of the major physical features of the country are cut by various rivers flowing from north to the south. The three major rivers namely Koshi, Gandaki and Karnali have dissected the country resulting in great physical diversity throughout the country.



Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the one of the highest mountain in the world. Mount Everest, also known in Nepal as Sagarmatha and in Chaina as ChomolungmaReaching 8,848 Meaters above sea level. Located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas, the mountain's straddles the border separating China and Nepal.

The mountain's height was first determined in 1856 by British Indian survey team (The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India), Known to them as Peak XV, at 8,840 meters. The current official height of 8,848 m as recognised by China and Nepal was established by a 1955 Indian survey and subsequently confirmed by  a Chinese survey in 1975. China measured the height of the Mount Everest again and got result 8,844.43 M. Chinese survey team  was measured by its rock height which is 8,844 m but Nepal said its should be measured by its snow height 8,848 m. Finally it was agreement in 2010 by both sides that the hight of Everest is 8,848 m and Nepal recognises China's claim that the rock height of Everest is 8,844 m.

Mount Everest is knows as Sagarmatha in Nepal, Chomolungma in China,  In 1865, the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation by Andrew Waugh, the British Survey or General of India was given its official english name is Mount Everest. And, The Mount Everest name is worldwide name of this world highest  Peak the world.