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Nepal is landlocked by China's Tibet Autonomous Region to the north and India on other three sides. West Bengal's narrow Siliguri Corridor separate Nepal and Bangladesh. To the east are Bhutan and India. Nepal has a very high degree of geographic diversity and can be divided into three main regions: Terai, Hilly, and Himal.
The geology of Nepal is dominated by the Himalaya, the highest, youngest and a very highly active mountain range. Himalaya is a type locality for the study of on-going continent-continent collision tectonics.
Geochronologic and Thermobarometric Constraints on the Evolution of the Main Central Thrust, Himalayan Orogen (PDF). PhD Thesis. University of California. "Geology and Petrographic study of the area from Chiraundi Khola to Thulo Khola, Dhading/Nawakot district, central Nepal". MS Thesis by Gyanendra Gurung; Granitoids of the Himalayan ...
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Nepal: . Nepal is a landlocked sovereign state in South Asia.The country is bordered to the north by China, and to the south, east, and west by India.
Satellite map of Koshi Province within Nepal. Koshi Province covers an area of 25,905 square kilometres (10,002 sq mi). [1] It is located at easternmost part of Nepal bordering by Tibet Autonomous Region of China in north Bagmati Province in west, Province No. 2 in south-west, Bihar of India in south, North Bengal of India in south-east and Sikkim of India in north-east.
Coastal geography is the study of the dynamic interface between the ocean and the land, incorporating both the physical geography (i.e. coastal geomorphology, geology, and oceanography) and the human geography of the coast.
The protected areas of Nepal cover mainly forested land and are located at various altitudes in the Terai, in the foothills of the Himalayas and in the mountains, thus encompassing a multitude of landscapes and preserving a vast biodiversity in the Palearctic and Indomalayan realms.