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The country has only about 1,740 miles of paved roads:
the fewest roads of any country in the world (139 km per million people).
Nepal has the highest elevations and has the greatest range of altitude.
Although Nepal is the size of England and Wales,
if stretched flat, it would be the size of the USA!
This three-week geographical journey was taken in December 1998 and January 1999;
or by the main Nepalese calendar, in the year 2055.
Read about the political instability in Nepal as of December 2004. |