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Flag of Nepal consisting of two stacked triangular pennants in red with a blue border and featuring a white crescent moon above a white sun symbol.

Map of Nepal with a bold red outline marking the national boundary, showing major cities such as Kathmandu, Pokhara, Biratnagar, and Bhairahawa. Neighboring countries India and China are labeled, and an inset locator map highlights Nepal's position in southern Asia.

Baburam Bhattarai

A man walks through a narrow street filled with collapsed bricks, rubble, and fallen utility poles after the 2015 earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Damaged buildings line both sides.

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Flag of Nepal consisting of two stacked triangular pennants in red with a blue border and featuring a white crescent moon above a white sun symbol.

Nepal

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Map of Nepal with a bold red outline marking the national boundary, showing major cities such as Kathmandu, Pokhara, Biratnagar, and Bhairahawa. Neighboring countries India and China are labeled, and an inset locator map highlights Nepal's position in southern Asia.

Nepal

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Baburam Bhattarai

Baburam Bhattarai

Baburam Bhattarai, 2011.

Evan Schneider/UN Photo

A man walks through a narrow street filled with collapsed bricks, rubble, and fallen utility poles after the 2015 earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Damaged buildings line both sides.

2015 Nepal earthquake: Kathmandu

A rubble-filled street in Kathmandu shortly after the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that...

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Prachanda

Prachanda

Prachanda (Pushpa Kamal Dahal), 2008.

Evan Schneider/UN Photo