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An independent Kingdom in the Himálayas, between 26° 25′ and 30° 17′ N. lat., and between 80° 6′ and 88° 14′ of E. long.; its greatest length 500 miles; its greatest breadth about 150; bounded on the north by Tibet, on the east by Sikkim, on the south and west by British India.

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John Scott Keltie LL.D. (Formerly Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society, Honorary Corresponding Member of the Geographical Societies of Scotland, Paris, Petrograd, Rome, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Neuchatel, Philadelphia, and of the Commercial Geographical Society of Paris)M. Epstein M.A., Ph.D.

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Keltie, J.S., Epstein, M. (1918). Nepál. In: Keltie, J.S., Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270473_47

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