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NepalCOUNTRY PROFILE: NEPAL
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COUNTRY
Formal Name: Kingdom of Nepal.
Short Form: Nepal.
Term for Citizens: Nepalese.
Capital: Kathmandu.
Date of Independence: 1768, when a number of
independent
hill states were unified by Prithvi Narayan Shah as the
Kingdom of
Gorkha.
National Holiday: December 28, birthday of King
Birendra
Bir Bikram Shah Dev.
Data as of September 1991
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