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A man speaks on his mobile phone in Kathmandu, in front of a Nepal Investment Bank Ltd. branch. The telecom revolution has hit Kathmandu in a big way, like all neighbouring countries in South Asia. A sign-board and road that leads to the Nepal Industrial Co-operation area in Kathmandu. Nepal Audhyogik Vikas Nigam ko Jagga Parisar. Nepal,officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal,is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. With an area of 147,181 square kilometres (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 sou