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States: the Kingdom of Nepal (The kingdom of Nepal)Major festivals: the National Day, December 28 (1945, King Birendra's Birthday)Desai Festival (Dashain): also known as Dashain (Bara Dashain), Tokachi Festival (Vijaya Dashami).In the Gregorian calendar in October, the largest civil festival.A total of 15 day festival, one of the country seven days.In one of the first three days, the army near the old Royal Palace Square Zaisheng (cattle, sheep) ceremony.The first four days (ten), the king and queen at the palace for the Nepalese officials, the masses of foreigners, and red.Nepalese New Year (New Year's Day): Nigerian official, Wang Jian-General of the era (Vikram Sanvat) of the New Year, in mid-April in the calendar.National holiday one day.Flag: Nepal's national flag is the only triangle of the national flag.A century ago there were Nepal on this Sanjiao Qi, and later both sides of San Jiaoqi together, today's Nepal has become the national flag pattern.From the small great, from top to bottom Xiangdie the two triangle composed of a red flag, the flag-blue.Red is the color of the bonus rhododendrons, blue on behalf of peace.Above the triangle is a white flag in the meniscus, the Star logo, on behalf of the Royal; triangle below the white flag in the Sun logo signs from the Rana family.The sun and the moon logo also on behalf of the Nepalese people hope countries like the sun and the moon, like the good wishes of lives.Kok said that the two flags of the two Himalayan peaks.National Emblem: Group by more than symbolic significance of the pictorial composition, the main Himalayas, the river valley, the Sun and Xing Yue signs, and the river on both sides of the beast white cattle, the birds and the Green Pheasant bonuses cuckoo.Mountains on the logo used by the people of Gorkha Yao Dao, the footprints of the Buddha, the national flag, composed of the crown.Center logo is Shouzhi weapons on both sides of the soldiers, on the red Shoudai with Sanskrit saying "the motherland is better than paradise."National flower: the azaleasOf the beast: CattleNational political figures: King Gyanendra, in June 2001 following places; Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan,贾普拉萨德Koirala (Girija Prashad Koirala), 2006年4月office, sworn in July.November 2, 2005, in the streets of the capital, Kathmandu, Nepal, New Year Niwa Er participate in the parade of people accompanied folk music to dance.Niwa Er people of Nepal is an ancient nation, according to their own calendar, November 2, 2005 Niwa Er calendar 1126 is the first day of Kathmandu said at a grand event to celebrate this holiday.Physical Geography: landlocked mountain country, an area of 147,181 square kilometers.In the middle of the south of the Himalayas, north China, West, South, East and the Indian border on three sides.A total length of 2,400 km borderline.Nepal in the mountains overlap in the multi-peak, Mount Everest (Nepal said Sajiamata peak) in the Sino-Nepalese border.National sub-alpine northern, central and southern subtropical three temperate climate zone.The northern cold season minimum temperature of -41 ℃, the highest temperature of the southern summer of 45 ℃.North High Low-lying South, the relative height difference between the world has rarely seen.Most of the hilly areas, 1,000 meters above sea level one of the nation's total land area of the half.East, West, North surrounded on three sides of mountains, Nepal has always been a "mountain" of that.More rivers and fast, mostly originate in China's Tibet and southward into the Ganges River in India.Southern soil is fertile alluvial plain, the distribution of dense forests and vast grasslands, Nepal is an important economic zone.Central Valley, more hills, situated in the capital, Kathmandu, the Kathmandu Valley.Weiwei the Himalayas blocked the north dry and cold winds, a pleasant climate, beautiful scenery.The northern mountain region, the mountain and a deep valley, the wind around the clouds, mountains nival, only summer grazing.As complex terrain, climate around the country different.National sub-alpine northern, central and southern subtropical three temperate climate zone.The northern cold season minimum temperature of -41 ℃, the highest temperature of the southern summer of 45 ℃.In the same time, when the hot plains of southern anomaly, and the capital Kathmandu Valley, Pa Kela, it is flowers Tuyan, Chunyiangran, while the northern mountainous area is the winter snow fly.Basic situation of the Sino-Nepalese borderPopulation: 25.87 million (July 2002).Nepal is a multi-ethnic country, the country lay, Limbu, Sunuwaer, Tamang, Magar, Gurung, Xie Erba, Niwa Er, Talu, more than 30 nationalities.86.5 percent of residents believe in Hinduism, is the world's only Hindu country in the country.7.8 percent Buddhist, 3.8 percent Muslim and other religions population accounts for 2.2 percent.Nepali as Mandarin, English upper class GM.Capital: Kathmandu (Kathmandu) south of the Himalayas in a natural valley, surrounded around Castle Peak, perennial flowers, known as the Shan State "Spring City."Kathmandu is also available in the "temple city" reputation.Nepal in the history of this dynasty built a large number of temples, pagodas, temples and shrines, falling into old, formed a "multi-such as residential temples, statues and more residents such as" strange landscape.'s Most prestigious big Fantian Temple, the pagoda building momentum, and so majestic, the magnificent, each year attracts tens of thousands of foreign tourists.Has a population of 1.1 million people (in August 2001 announced).Administrative Division: the country is divided into five development zones, 14 zones and 36 cities, 75 counties and 3,995 villages.Thousands of people gathered in the capital, Kathmandu, Patan on the old Royal Palace Square to celebrate the Hindu festival of traditional festivals KelishennaA brief history: 6th century BC to establish dynasty.1769 Gorkha King Prithvi Narayan Shah, conquered three Mara dynasty, the State of the unification of Nepal.The establishment of the Shah dynasty, extending so far.British invasion in 1814, Nepal was forced to cede vast territory to British India, the British foreign supervision.1846-1950, Rana family relies on to win the support of the British military and government power and the status of hereditary prime minister, to become a puppet king.1923, Britain recognized the independent Nepal.November 1950, the Nepali Congress Party and other anti-Rana launched the struggle to end the rule of the Rana, and the exercise of constitutional monarchy.February 1959 Mahendra promulgated the first constitution of Nepal.1962 promulgated a new constitution.1972 King Birendra enthronement.April 16, 1990, King Birendra dissolved the National Council, the same year third constitution promulgated in November, the implementation of the multi-party constitutional monarchy.Nepal's "Chinatown"Politics: Constitution, a multi-party system in Nepal is a democratic and sovereign and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of the Hindu monarchy.King of Nepal nation and the people is a symbol of unity.King has declared a state of emergency and formulate, revise and abolish the throne, such as the law of succession of power.Under the Constitution, the king was to appoint the next House majority leader of the parliamentary group for the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister under the auspices of the Cabinet.Parliament as the supreme legislative body, composed by the House of Lords and the House of Commons.For the upper house of the 60 seats, a six-year term, election every two years 1 / 3.House located 205 seats, according to the proportion of the population by the county elected to a number of members for a term of five years.May 18, 2006, the Nepali parliament passed a new draft resolution submitted by the cabinet, the king has lifted all the privileges that Nepal as "secular state", the Council become the country's supreme decision-making body.Provisions of the resolution, the original "His Majesty's Government" will be renamed the "Government of Nepal" original "Royal Nepal Army" will be called "Nepal National Army" the king no longer has a military commander-in-chief title, the transferee and the army supreme commander of the appointment by the Council of Ministers (cabinet) decision and the relevant parliamentary Committee for approval.The resolution also provides that the Royal affairs consultant, "Royal Commission" will be dissolved and related matters by the parliament to take over; King will be their property and income taxes paid, the Royal Palace expenditure budget by the parliament decision; King no longer has the power to the designated heir to the throne , Has this power by Parliament; King will no longer have the power to convene Parliament plenary session, the prime minister may convene the plenary session of Parliament, but the final decision made by the Speaker.The resolution also stressed that any inconsistencies with the text of the resolution of the constitutional and legal provisions will be considered invalid.June 10, the Nepalese Parliament plenary session adopted a new regulation to require completely divorced from the King Council Business.Under the new regulations, all state machinery functions will be parliamentary command, the State Council all major decisions will be made or authorized, the content of the Constitution will be amended parliament, government departments of the important decisions will be submitted directly to the Executive Council approved, without the prior King recognized.In addition, the Government cabinet minister, the military leaders of the security forces, diplomatic envoys and so also the swearing-in ceremony presided over by the King in the Royal Palace to Parliament by the relevant committees in the parliament held.July 31, the Nepalese cabinet meeting decided to substantially reduce the enjoyment of royal family members of the royal family allowances.Under the new regulations, in the future, only the king, queen, crown prince, Crown Princess and the Queen mother can enjoy the royal family allowances.September 22, the Nepalese Parliament adopted the amended law of the new army, the armed forces supreme commander of Nepal by King no longer serve as the military command of government and parliament will be controlled.The government forces will be under the control and movement led by the Prime Minister's National Security Council proposed by the Government, the final decision.New military law also provides that the establishment of special military tribunals to deal with criminal cases within the military.Nepal experienced historic changes in Nepal cabinet decided to amend the law heir to the throneAugust 7, 2004, two Lajie classes Tutsi women in Kathmandu World's Indigenous People Day celebrations on dressing up.Lajie classes Tutsi are a minority in NepalEconomy; Nepal for the agricultural country, 80 percent of the population is mainly agricultural, economic backwardness, is the world's one of the least developed countries.The main crops are rice, maize, wheat, sugar cane is the main cash crops, fuel, tobacco and so on.Natural resources are copper, iron, aluminum, zinc, phosphate, cobalt, quartz, sulphur, lignite, mica, marble, limestone, magnesite, timber.Are only a small number of mining.Abundant hydropower resources, electricity and water reserves to 83 million kilowatts, accounting for the world's hydropower reserves of 2.3 percent.Of which 27 million kilowatts to the development of hydroelectric power.Nepal weak industrial base, small-scale, low level of mechanization, the slow pace of development.Mainly sugar, textile, leather footwear, food processing, and so on.Some rural handicraft industry and handicraft manufacturing.Pleasant climate, beautiful natural scenery, so that Nepal is rich in tourism resources.Nepal is located in the south of the Himalayas, in addition, there are over 200 in Nigeria from 6000 to 8000 meters at the summit is the aspiration of mountaineering enthusiasts, Nepal's rich cultural and religious heritage, exquisite classical architecture for Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims It is also available in 14 countries Wildlife Conservation Park, tourists can travel on foot and hunting tourism, Nepal in 1995 to the tourists reached 360,000.Press and Publications: The deadline for March 2002, Nepal National Register of various newspapers and periodicals are issued in 3192.218 of them in the Journal of the country's largest two are the official Daily News newspaper: "Gorkha", Nepalese, founded in 1902; "new Nepal", English, founded in 1965.There is also "increases are Post" and "Kantipur", as well as many other Daily.Nepal is China's only national news agency of news agencies, government-run, established in April 1962.Radio nepal is China's only radio station, government-run, established in 1948, with Nepali and English radio.December 1985 Nepal Television in the capital, the official launch.Nepal at present there are two private television programmes by satellite transmission.Diplomacy: Nepalese government's adherence to equality, mutual benefit, mutual respect and non-aligned foreign policy and is willing to develop on the basis of five principles of peaceful coexistence with all countries in the world of friendly relations.And attaches great importance to developing Sino-Indian friendly relations between the two neighboring countries, promoting South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation in the development.At the same time actively develop relations with Western countries for economic aid and investment.The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation member countries.Relations with China: August 1, 1955, Nepal established diplomatic relations with China.1996, President Jiang Zemin on a state visit to Nepal, King Birendra and established a joint Sino-Nepalese friendship from generation to generation for the 21st century, the good-neighborly partnership relations.July 2002, King Gyanendra on a state visit to China.April 2005, King Gyanendra attended the Boao Forum for Asia 2005 annual meeting.Reproduced: http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2002-06/17/content_444310.htm
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