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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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Keltie, J.S. (1899). Nepál. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270282_36
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