Top 10 Amazing and Interesting Facts About Nepal

Nepal is one of the most beautiful countries in the World with stunning landscapes, mountains and lakes. Nepal lies between two massive nuclear power countries, India and China, but still it manages to retain its own culture. There are lots of amazing and interesting facts about Nepal and its history. Let’s see top 10 interesting facts about Nepal.

1. Interesting fact about Nepal national flag:

Nepal national flag is the only flag in the world that has non-quadrilateral shape. It has two maroon colored triangular shapes, stack on one another with blue border. The upper triangle consists of the moon and lower triangle consists of the Sun.

2. Birth place of Buddha

Nepal is the birth place of Lord Gautama Buddha. Siddhartha Gautama (known as Lord Buddha) was born in Kapilvastu, Lumbini and it is a sacred place for Buddhists.

3. Internet in Nepal

Though the use of internet in Nepal is growing rapidly, but more than 50% people in Nepal surf internet with a speed of below 256 kbps. Maximum people use cybercafés to use internet. It has highest concentration of cybercafés in the World.

Top ten amazing and interesting facts about Sri Lanka

What is the first thing you could think about amazing "Sri Lanka"? Probably Tea or Cricket or Elephant. Yes, it’s true, that Sri Lanka is famous for tea (Ceylon tea), cricket and elephant. But that's not all, it has many interesting facts and figures. Here we will see top 10 amazing and interesting facts about Sri Lanka.
Name: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (short name is Sri Lanka)
Continent: Asia
Independence Day: 4th February, 1948
Area: 65610 km2
Population: 20.48 million (2013)
Capital: Colombo
Currency: Sri Lankan Rupee
Official Languages: Sinhala, Tamil

Top 10 amazing and interesting facts about Sri Lanka:

1. Sri Lanka, one of most beautiful islands in the world, was known as Ceylon before 1972. It is also known as 'Pearl of Indian Ocean' and 'teardrop of India' due to its shape. This country has a reference in great Hindu epic 'Ramayana'. It is believed to be the kingdom of Ravana and was known as 'Lanka'.

Top 10 amazing and interesting facts about India

There are lots of amazing and interesting facts about India. But before starting the top 10 list about amazing India, let’s see few unknown facts about ancient India.
- The name ‘India’ is derived from the river ‘Indus’, also known as Sindhu where first civilization started to grow.  
- Four religions born in India – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, and almost 25% of World’s population follow one of these four
- There are more than 3,00,000 mosques in India, more than any other country including Muslim countries
- Sikhism originated in Amritsar, Punjab, famous for Golden Template, founded in the year of 1977
- Martial Arts were first created in India and it still operates in Kerala, India
- Yoga originated in India 5000 or more years ago
- The game ‘Snakes and Ladders’ was invented in India by Gyandev. The ladders in the game represent virtues and snakes represent vices