Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Kathmandu
- Region
- Asia, Southern Asia
- Population
- 29,618,118 (2025)
- Area
- 140,800 km²
- Currency
- Nepalese rupee (NPR)
- Languages
- Nepali (macrolanguage), English
- Calling code
- +977
- Internet domain
- .np
- ISO codes
- NP, NPL, 524
- Time zone
- UTC+5:45
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Nepal covers about 140,800 square kilometres. By area it ranks 97th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Tajikistan and a little larger than Greece. It shares a land border with 2 neighbours: China, India. It is landlocked, which means it has no sea coast. Its centre lies at about 28° north, 84° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 29.6 million people live in Nepal (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 52nd most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.36 percent of the world's people. On average there are 210 people to each square kilometre. About 67 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 71 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Nepali (macrolanguage), English. A person from Nepal is called Nepalese.
Money and economy
The currency is the Nepalese rupee (code NPR, symbol ₨). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 45.5 billion (2025), which is about US$ 1,536 for each person (2025).
Time
Nepal uses one time zone, UTC+5:45 (Asia/Kathmandu). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Kathmandu | 1,442,271 |
| Pokhara | 600,051 |
| Bharatpur | 369,377 |
| Pātan | 299,283 |
| Birgañj | 268,273 |
| Biratnagar | 244,750 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Southern Asia
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Iran, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.