Report by Nepal

Nepal is a mountainous and predominantly agrarian land-locked country of 26.6 million people lying in the southern slopes of the Himalayas, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China in the north and India in the south, east and west. The hilly and the mountainous regions including the great Himalayan range that has eight of the 14 highest peaks in the world above 8,000 meters account for 83% of the total land area of 147,181 sq. km. and the terai plain accounts for 17% of the area. Within its very small stretch, Nepal possesses immense ethnic, cultural, climatic and biological diversities.