Nepali Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Sindhupalchok District with the correct year: In ______, 53.3% of the population spoke Nepali as their first language.
  2. Complete the sentence about Tribhuvan International Airport with the correct year: The first charter flight took place between Gauchaur and Calcutta, in a Himalayan Aviation Dakota on 20 February ____…
  3. Complete the sentence about Tribhuvan International Airport with the correct year: On 20 February ______, an Indian registered Dakota DC-3 commenced the first ever scheduled service, linking Kathmandu…
  4. Complete the sentence about Tribhuvan International Airport with the correct year: In ______, King Tribhuvan took refuge at the Indian embassy in an attempt to overthrow the Rana dynasty.
  5. Complete the sentence about Tribhuvan International Airport with the correct year: On 10 November ______, two Indian planes landed at Gauchaur Airport and carried the young king along with his grandfa…
  6. Complete the sentence about Tribhuvan International Airport with the correct year: After the Delhi Accord, the Rana regime ended and King Tribhuvan landed at Gauchaur Airport as the monarch on 18 Febr…
  7. Complete the sentence about Tribhuvan International Airport with the correct year: In ______, the first scheduled domestic flights commenced to Bhairahawa, Biratnagar, Pokhara and Simara.
  8. Complete the sentence about Tribhuvan International Airport with the correct year: On 15 June ______, the airport was inaugurated by King Mahendra and renamed Tribhuvan Airport in memory of the king's…
  9. Complete the sentence about Pokhara International Airport with the correct year: The idea of constructing an international airport in Pokhara was first proposed in ______.
  10. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the Government of Nepal acquired land for the project.
  11. Complete the sentence about Pokhara International Airport with the correct year: In ______, the Japan International Cooperation Agency conducted a feasibility study.
  12. Complete the sentence about Gautam Buddha International Airport with the correct year: In May ______, it became Nepal's second international airport, after previously only handling domestic services.
  13. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the airport was one of the target of the Nepal bombings.
  14. Complete the sentence about Gautam Buddha International Airport with the correct year: In ______, the airport was renamed Gautam Buddha Airport in honor of Gautam Buddha, who was born in the neighbori…
  15. Complete the sentence about Gautam Buddha International Airport with the correct year: The contract to upgrade the airport was awarded to the Chinese company Northwest Civil Aviation Airport Construct…
  16. Complete the sentence about Kanchenjunga Conservation Area with the correct year: Kanchenjunga Conservation Area is a protected area in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal that was established in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Kanchenjunga Conservation Area with the correct year: The Kanchenjunga Conservation Area was designated during ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Tinau River with the correct year: In ______, there was a huge flood that destroyed two suspension bridges and the powerhouse shaft of Himal Hydro.
  19. Complete the sentence about Tinau River with the correct year: In the flood of ______ at least 500 households of Butwal municipality were displaced.
  20. Complete the sentence about Tinau River with the correct year: In ______, due to outburst of embankment, about 250 households were displace in Butwal municipality due to the flood.
  21. Complete the sentence about Mount Pumori with the correct year: Pumori was first climbed on May 17, ______, by Gerhard Lenser on a German-Swiss expedition.
  22. Complete the sentence about Mount Pumori with the correct year: Nearly 500 people had summited Pumori by ______, at a cost of 42 lives.
  23. Which place completes this sentence about Pokhara? Named the country's "capital of tourism" it is the second largest city after ______, with 600,051 inhabitants living in 120,594 households as of 2021…
  24. Which place completes this sentence about Pokhara? Until the end of the 1960s, the town was only accessible by foot and it was considered even more a mystical place than ______.
  25. Which place completes this sentence about Birgunj? The Tribhuvan Highway links Birgunj to Nepal's capital, ______.
  26. Which place completes this sentence about Dhangadhi? The city is connected with the Bhimdutta Highway, about 660 kilometers west of ______.
  27. Which place completes this sentence about Nagarkot? At an elevation of 2,195 meters, it is considered one of the most scenic spots in ______ District.
  28. Which place completes this sentence about Janakpurdham? The founder of modern ______ is considered to be the 17th century's ascetic Hindu saint Sannyasi Shurkishordas.
  29. Which place completes this sentence about Janakpurdham? Accounts from ascetics, pandits, and bards suggest that ______ was founded in the early 18th century.
  30. Which place completes this sentence about Janakpurdham? The earliest description of ______ as a pilgrimage site dates back to 1805.
  31. Which place completes this sentence about Janakpurdham? Until the 1950s, ______ was a cluster of rural hamlets inhabited by farmers, artisans, priests, and clerks who worked for the monasteries that c…
  32. Which place completes this sentence about Mustang District? The area receives an average annual rainfall of less than 260 mm at ______ in the Lower Mustang.
  33. Which place completes this sentence about Mustang District? Spring and autumn are generally dry, but some precipitation is brought by summer monsoons, which averaged 133 mm at ______ between 1973 and…
  34. Which place completes this sentence about Rara Lake? In 1976, citizens of the two villages Chapra and Rara were resettled to ______.
  35. Which place completes this sentence about Begnas Lake? The lake is the third largest lake of Nepal and second largest, after Phewa Lake, among the seven lakes in ______ Valley.
  36. Which place completes this sentence about Bhaktapur Durbar Square? During its height, ______ Durbar Square contained 99 courtyards but today hardly 15 of these courtyards remain.
  37. Which place completes this sentence about Bhaktapur Durbar Square? After, ______ was defeated by the Gorkhali forces, the palace square fell into disrepair and the earthquakes of 1833 and 1934 reduced…
  38. Which place completes this sentence about Lumbini, Nepal? According to sacred texts and Buddhist commentaries, Queen Maya gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, in ______, c. 563 BCE.
  39. Which place completes this sentence about Lumbini, Nepal? At other sites near ______, earlier Buddhas were born, achieved ultimate Enlightenment and finally relinquished their earthly forms.
  40. Which place completes this sentence about Lumbini, Nepal? The Ashoka Pillar of ______, a monolithic column with a Brahmi script inscription discovered at Rupandehi in 1896, is believed to mark the spo…
  41. Which place completes this sentence about Annapurna Circuit? Road construction started in the early 1980s both from Dhumre to the north and from ______ to the west and then up the Kali Gandaki valley.
  42. Which place completes this sentence about Kaski District? The district, with ______ as its district headquarter, covers an area of 2,017 square km and had a total population of 492,098 according to 20…
  43. Which place completes this sentence about Kaski District? The district headquarters ______ lies about 750 m above the sea level.
  44. Which place completes this sentence about Kaski District? According to the District Sport Committee, Kaski District has one stadium, named ______ Rangashala, of about 417 Ropani of area and capacity o…
  45. Which place completes this sentence about Gautam Buddha International Airport? In 1977, the airport was renamed Gautam Buddha Airport in honor of Gautam Buddha, who was born in the neighboring village…
  46. Which place completes this sentence about Tinau River? In the flood of 2007 at least 500 households of ______ municipality were displaced.
  47. Which place completes this sentence about Tinau River? In 2008, due to outburst of embankment, about 250 households were displace in ______ municipality due to the flood.
  48. Complete the sentence about Bhaktapur with the correct year: Bhaktapur suffered heavy damage in the April ______ earthquake.
  49. Complete the sentence about Lukla with the correct year: In August ______, the Nepalese government announced plans to open the first tarmac road from Kathmandu to Lukla.
  50. Complete the sentence about Patan, Nepal with the correct year: In ______, Lalitpur was annexed by Prithvi Narayan Shah during the unification of Nepal.
  51. Complete the sentence about Patan, Nepal with the correct year: After the ______ People's Movement, Lalitpur gained local governance rights and began urban expansion.
  52. Complete the sentence about Tansen, Nepal with the correct year: The ______ book, "The Hospital at the End of the World" describes the workings of Mission Hospital from the perspective of a short-term…
  53. Complete the sentence about Upper Mustang with the correct year: In ______, a shepherd in Mustang discovered a collection of 55 cave paintings depicting the life of the Buddha.
  54. Complete the sentence about Makalu with the correct year: The first climb on Makalu was made by an American team led by Riley Keegan in the spring of ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Makalu with the correct year: Makalu was first summited on May 15, ______, by Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy of a French expedition led by Jean Franco.
  56. Complete the sentence about Ama Dablam with the correct year: Prior to a ______ avalanche, climbers typically set up three camps along the ridge, with Camp III just below and to the right of the hangi…
  57. Complete the sentence about Tilicho Lake with the correct year: A Russian diving team, consisting of Andrei Andryushin, Denis Bakin, and Maxim Gresko, conducted a scuba dive in the lake in ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Bardia National Park with the correct year: Bardiya National Park is a protected area in Nepal that was established in ______ as Royal Bardia National Park.
  59. Complete the sentence about Bardia National Park with the correct year: In ______, Nepal lost this region to the East India Company through the Sugauli Treaty.
  60. Complete the sentence about Sagarmatha National Park with the correct year: Sagarmatha National Park is a National Park northeastern of Nepal, and was established on 19 July ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Sagarmatha National Park with the correct year: In ______, it became the country's first national park that was inscribed as a Natural World Heritage Site.
  62. Complete the sentence about Langtang National Park with the correct year: In ______, royal approval designated the establishment of Langtang National Park as the first protected area in the Himalayas.
  63. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 31 July ______, Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashed into the park.
  64. Complete the sentence about Everest Base Camp with the correct year: On 25 April ______, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale, struck Nepal and triggered an avalanche on Pumori th…
  65. Complete the sentence about Solukhumbu District with the correct year: In ______ Dudhkunda municipality was established merging some Village development committees.
  66. Complete the sentence about Koshi Province with the correct year: Per the earlier ______ Nepal census, the province had approximately 4.5 million people.
  67. Complete the sentence about Gandaki Province with the correct year: The newly elected Provincial Assembly adopted Gandaki Province as the permanent name, replacing its initial name Province No. 4 on 2…
  68. Complete the sentence about Narayanhiti Palace with the correct year: The Nepalese monarchy was abolished following the ______ revolution.
  69. Complete the sentence about Ilam, Nepal with the correct year: In ______, following the end of the Panchayat System, Ilam regained its official name of Ilam Municipality.
  70. Complete the sentence about Ilam, Nepal with the correct year: In ______, the Ilam tea factory was established, and tea plantations covered over 135 acres of land.
  71. Complete the sentence about Rolpa District with the correct year: In May ______ a major battle between Maoist guerrillas and the army was fought at Lisne Lekh near the Rolpa-Pyuthan border.
  72. Complete the sentence about Humla District with the correct year: Wild yaks were once thought to be regionally extinct in Nepal, but was rediscovered in Humla in ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Sankhuwasabha District with the correct year: In ______, 46.1% of the population spoke Nepali as their first language.
  74. Complete the sentence about Bhote Koshi with the correct year: In July ______, a sudden ice avalanche caused a glacial lake outburst flood from the moraine-dammed Zhangzangbu-Cho Lake in the headwater…
  75. Complete the sentence about Arun River with the correct year: The first use of the modern name was recorded in ______, but the alternative names of Arundel river or great river continued to be used fo…
  76. Complete the sentence about Birgunj with the correct year: The Buddhist shrine is yet to be dated by archaeologists, however preliminary investigations have estimated the stupa to be around ______ yea…
  77. Complete the sentence about Siddharthanagar with the correct year: Although the current name was first used in ______, many still refer to it as Bhairahawa.
  78. Complete the sentence about Siddharthanagar with the correct year: The name was changed to Siddhartanagar in ______ AD by poet Komal Dutta Tiwari.
  79. Complete the sentence about Tulsipur with the correct year: Tulsipur remained under the Chauhans until the Rebellion of ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Tulsipur with the correct year: In ______, Tulsipur was split off as a tehsil unto itself, alongside the tehsils of Mankapur and Colonelganj, from the Gonda Sadar tehsil.
  81. Complete the sentence about Tulsipur with the correct year: In ______, when Balrampur was created as a district unto itself by a bifurcation of the Gonda district, the tehsil of Tulsipur was allotted…
  82. Complete the sentence about Ghorahi with the correct year: About ______ AD, these kingdoms were annexed by the Shah Dynasty during the reunification of Nepal.
  83. Complete the sentence about Lamjung District with the correct year: In ______, 58.6% of the population spoke Nepali as their first language.
  84. Complete the sentence about Dhankuta with the correct year: The first five American Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Dhankuta Bazaar in Fall ______ to work as teachers in the two high schools.
  85. Complete the sentence about Dhankuta with the correct year: In October ______ three additional volunteers arrived to help establish the new Panchayat Development program.
  86. Complete the sentence about Dhankuta with the correct year: From ______ Nepal was divided into 75 Panchayat Districts, and the traditional Dhankuta administrative region was divided up into about six…
  87. Complete the sentence about Panchthar District with the correct year: Panthar was a part of Old Dhankuta District during Rana era and until ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Panchthar District with the correct year: In ______, 33.9% of the population spoke Nepali as their first language.
  89. Complete the sentence about Okhaldhunga with the correct year: At the time of the ______ Nepal census it had a population of 3761 living in 790 individual households.
  90. Complete the sentence about Makwanpur District with the correct year: The district renamed as Makwanpur on the name of Makwanpurgadhi and the headquarter moved to Hetauda in ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Makwanpur District with the correct year: In ______, 41.5% of the population spoke Nepali as their first language.
  92. Complete the sentence about Kavrepalanchok District with the correct year: At the time of the ______ census, 50.39% of the population spoke Nepali, 33.15% Tamang, 10.91% Nepal Bhasha, 1.62% Magar and…
  93. Complete the sentence about Kavrepalanchok District with the correct year: In ______, 50.5% of the population spoke Nepali as their first language.
  94. Complete the sentence about Rasuwa District with the correct year: At the time of the ______ census, 67.54% of the population spoke Tamang, 24.49% Nepali, 3.80% Ghale and 1.72% Tibetan as their first…
  95. Complete the sentence about Rasuwa District with the correct year: In ______, 26.5% of the population spoke Nepali as their first language.
  96. Complete the sentence about Tanahun District with the correct year: At the time of the ______ census, 62.71% of the population spoke Nepali, 19.69% Magar, 8.13% Gurung, 3.54% Nepal Bhasha and 1.10% Da…
  97. Complete the sentence about Tanahun District with the correct year: In ______, 61.7% of the population spoke Nepali as their first language.
  98. Complete the sentence about Baglung District with the correct year: In ______, 94.2% of the population spoke Nepali as their first language.
  99. Complete the sentence about Myagdi District with the correct year: At the time of the ______ census, 92.70% of the population spoke Nepali, 3.72% Magar and 0.96% Chhantyal as their first language.
  100. Complete the sentence about Myagdi District with the correct year: In ______, 94.4% of the population spoke Nepali as their first language.

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