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