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Nepal Prahri or police in traffic action... Why the chin strap - is it for medical or uniform purposes? And don't you love the "ISD STD" on the shop wall behind...? See a girl on a two-wheeler motorcycle-scooter using a mobile phone, as well. She stops, checks her messages and moves on. Nepal officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. With an area of 147,181 square kilometers (56,827 sq mi) and a population of approximately 27 million (and nearly 2 million absentee workers living abroad), Nepal is the world's 93rd largest country by land mass and the 41st most populous country. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India.