Nepal: flag, capital & map
Get to know Nepal, then put your memory to work.
Country facts
- Capital
- Kathmandu
- Region
- Asia
- Subregion
- Southern Asia
- Population (2025, World Bank)
- 29,618,118
- Area
- 147,181 km²
- Languages (REST Countries)
- Nepali
- Currency (CLDR, October 2026)
- Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
Nepal’s national flag is made of two joined pennants instead of a rectangle. Its capital is Kathmandu.
Dated population: World Bank; geographic facts: REST Countries; currencies: Unicode CLDR. Sources and dates →
Flag of Nepal
The flag of Nepal is the world's only non-quadrilateral flag of a sovereign country. It takes the shape of two adjoining right-angled triangles and has a crimson red field with deep blue edges. Within the smaller upper triangle is an emblem of the upper half of a white sun resting on an upward facing white crescent. The lower triangle bears a white sun with twelve rays.
Where it is
Nepal is grouped in Southern Asia, within Roam’s Asia region. Its land-border list includes 2 countries in this atlas: China, India. It is landlocked.
Nepal has a recorded area of 147,181 square kilometres. Among the 9 countries assigned to Southern Asia in this dataset, it ranks 6 by area, from largest to smallest. Bangladesh is immediately above it in that ordering, at 147,570 km². Sri Lanka is immediately below it, at 65,610 km². This comparison uses the source’s area figures and subregions, not a ranking of all territories.
The marker shows the atlas location. Small countries may be too small for an outline at this scale. Map boundaries are illustrative.
People, languages and currency
The World Bank records 29,618,118 people for Nepal in 2025. This is the latest non-empty annual observation in Roam’s committed 2020–2025 download, rather than a live population counter. Dividing that population by the source area gives approximately 201 people per square kilometre. This calculated average does not describe how evenly people are distributed.
The language entries in the source are Nepali. They describe the dataset’s listed languages, not every language spoken by residents. The currency listed for this date is Nepalese Rupee (NPR). Currency assignments are selected from Unicode CLDR’s date ranges for 23 October 2026; the three-letter codes identify currencies, not countries.
Test yourself
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What is the capital of Nepal?
Reveal answer
Kathmandu. Nepal’s national flag is made of two joined pennants instead of a rectangle. Its capital is Kathmandu.
Without looking at the image, how would you describe the flag of Nepal?
Reveal answer
The flag of Nepal is the world's only non-quadrilateral flag of a sovereign country. It takes the shape of two adjoining right-angled triangles and has a crimson red field with deep blue edges. Within the smaller upper triangle is an emblem of the upper half of a white sun resting on an upward facing white crescent. The lower triangle bears a white sun with twelve rays.
Which land neighbours of Nepal are included in this atlas?
Reveal answer
China and India. Nepal is landlocked.
Which languages does the source list for Nepal?
Reveal answer
Nepali. These are the source’s language entries, not a complete inventory of every language spoken in Nepal.
Which currency codes are listed for Nepal?
Reveal answer
Nepalese Rupee (NPR). These assignments use Unicode CLDR’s legal-tender date ranges for 23 October 2026.
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