The mountain region occupies a total area of 15% of the land of the country. South of the mountain region is called Hilly region. Its height varies from 600 to 5000 meter from the sea. Its breath is 75 to 125 km from north to south. It occupies a total land of 68% of the country. This part of land captures hill, valley and lakes. Kathmandu, the capital of the kingdom, lies in this region. It is also one of the big valleys of Nepal. The southern part of the hill region is called Terai or low land. The average height of this region is 200 meter from sea level. Its breath is 25 to 30 km from north to south. It occupies a total area of 17% of the country. This region is the gangeitic plain of alluvial soil and consists of dense forest area, national parks, wildlife reserves and conservation areas. King Janak, the philosopher king and the father of Sita, the heroin of Ramayan, Sita the ancient epic, and Buddha, the light of Asia, were born in this part of Nepal. Terai is also called the granary of Nepal. This country has nearly 6,000 rivers and rivulets and prominent among them are Kosi, Gandaki, Karnali, Mechi, Mahakali, Bagmati, Rapti etc. The major lakes of Nepal are Mahendra Tal also called Rara Daha, Phewa Tal, Shey Phoksundo Tal, Roopa Tal (at the highest altitude in the world). The main Glaciers of this country are Mahalangur, Kumbhakarna, Kanchanjangha, Khumbu, Langtang and Machcha puchchare.

The major export commodities are woollen carpet, cotton readymade garments, pulses, hide and skins, niggerseeds, gold and silver ware and ornament. twines, toothpaste, polyester yarn, Cardamom, noodles, ginger, rice bran oil. Regarding the economic growth of the country, Nepal in figures 1989 mentions. "Economic growth of the country has not improved markedly over time to over take population growth. As the current population growth is 2.3 per cent per annum, growing population has concealed the gain achieved by developmental activities. Little over half (57%) of the population of working age reported economically active in 1991 and among them 81 per cent were engaged in agricultural activities. In the development scale, Human development index (HDI) computed for Nepal for year 1996 is 0.378(HDI lies between 0 and 1). This value is only 45% of the World average. Among the districts, Kathmandu possesses the highest (0.603) HDI and Mugu the least (0.147) in the same year. Contributions of non-agricultural activities are gradually increasing in the GDP.
Nepalese currency (Nepal's Rupee) is circulated throughout the Kingdom