United Nations member state

Nepal

Flag and country information

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Flag of Nepal
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Nepal is included as a United Nations member state. In UN M49, its subregion is Southern Asia.

The capital recorded by the World Bank is Kathmandu.

The midyear population estimate for 2025 is 29,618,118. Land area for 2023 is 143,350 km².

Capital
Kathmandu
Population
29,618,118 2025 midyear estimate · World Bank
Land area
143,350 km² 2023 · World Bank land area
Currency
Nepalese Rupee NPR
Languages
Nepali
Continent
Asia

Canonical file

Non-rectangular flag. The file’s viewBox is 71.571 × 87.246.

Codes

Alpha-2, alpha-3, and the numeric code are the codes published together in UN M49.

ISO alpha-2
NP
ISO alpha-3
NPL
Numeric code
524
Calling code
+977
Country-code domain
.np
Subregion
Southern Asia

Languages

Status labels come from Unicode CLDR. They are not a ranking, and they are not a legal opinion.

Official

  • Nepali ne

Major populated places

  • Kathmandu
  • Pokhara
  • Bharatpur
  • Birgañj
  • Biratnagar

Names are the first five GeoNames cities5000 places for this country, ordered by that dataset’s population, after places within 20 km of a larger selected place are left out. This is not an official city ranking, and city populations are not shown.

Time zone

  • Asia/Kathmandu

Sources

  • Population: 2025 · World Bank SP.POP.TOTL
  • Land area: 2023 · World Bank AG.LND.TOTL.K2
  • Capital: World Bank
  • Unicode CLDR · IANA · GeoNames · libphonenumber
  • Canonical file: File:Flag of Nepal.svg

Dataset retrieved 2026-09-26

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