1.1 Basic General Data Geography and Administration

• Main Authors: Financing Shelter, Urban Poor, Mani Ram, Singh Mahat
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Tundra
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.552.683; http://www.hdm.lth.se/fileadmin/hdm/alumni/papers/SDD_2007_242a/Mani_Ram_Mahat__Nepal.pdf

Nepal-a small south Asian country with an area of 147,181 square km- is located between two huge countries China in north and India in south. It stretches over length of 885 km (east-west) and width of 145 to 241km (north-south). Its vast range of altitude i.e. 70 m to 8848 m (Mount Everest) from the mean sea level has created different climatic conditions-hot tropical in the south flat land (Tarai), sub tropical between the flat land and immediate hills, temperate in hills, cold & dry climate in the high mountains and cold and windy tundra in north bordered Himalayas. There is one metropolitan city, four sub-metropolitan cities, fifty-three municipalities and nearly 3900 village development committees. After a decade- long Maoist insurgency war, the country is striving for sustained peace and democracy in the country through re-structuring of the state.