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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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J. Scott Keltie LL.D. (Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society)

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© 1912 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Keltie, J.S. (1912). Nepál. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270411_38

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