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TOP FIVE FACTS ABOUT NEPAL

1.  GURKHAS OF NEPAL HAVE BEEN PART OF BRITISH ARMY SINCE 1800's

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Since 1815, Nepali Gurkha army, famous for the bravery, has been a part of the British Army. Till date there are many new recruits for the army. Many of the Gurkhas were awarded by medal like Victoria Cross. The name Gurkha originates from the place called Gorkha, which used to be a separate kingdom in 1800's.

2. NEPAL IS THE ONLY COUTNRY WITH NON RECTANGULAR NATIONAL FLAG

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As we can see in the picture, flag of Nepal has two triangles with sun and moon. In fact this is the only national flag in the world which is not rectangular in shape. Beside in 2014 Nepal made a world record by making a largest human flag, with about 10000 people.

3. MOST PART OF THE HIMALAYAS RANGE IS IN NEPAL


Nepal has got 8 highest peak in the world except for Mt K2, second highest in Pakistan. Mount Everest also called Sagarmatha is 8848m high. The list of the peaks can be seen in this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_mountains_on_Earth

4. THE AVERAGE WIDTH OF NEPAL IS ONLY 193KM

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Despite of average width being only 193km it is impossible to travel the across the width of the country in a day. It usually takes a week or more to go form north to south of the country because of the very-very complex geographical structures. Except for some highways which reach north, it takes more than a day for the travel.

5. NEPAL HAS GOT HUGE DIVERSITY IN THE PEOPLE

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There are more than 80 different ethnics groups in Nepal and people speaking more than 125 languages. People had different lifestyle , culture tradition while moving form south to north and east to west.


TOP FIVE THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT SAMSUNG

Samsung is one of the well known company. I think there will be no people who haven't heard the word samsung . 
Samsung is one of the leading or top smartphone company and before the smartphones also samsung has made many electronic products which we are very much aware of . From television to refrigerators and phones and cordless, dvd players ,washing machines and many others. 

But beside this well known market on electronics samsung got so many other sides.

Here's top five things you didn't know about samsung you dont know. 
Beside these top five there are many other things that samsung is involved with. Better google them to know more about samsung. 

1 Samsung was founded in 1938 as a shop in Daegu running a flour and noodle business.


2 Samsung's got a Heavy Industries that builds ships and is extended in area of 4 million square foot shipyard. And also samsung TECHCWIN is a surveillance, aeronautics, optoelectronics and weapons technology company.
Samsung's got build some of the largest ships thats like floating cities and are top in weapons. 





3 Samsung hipped 215.8 million smartphones last year of 2014 and was the top of the smartphones sellers and the number is more the combined of the next three top smartphone sellers. Samsung Electronics' profit last quarter was $8.27 billion, much of it from smartphones. For comparison, Google's operating profit last quarter was $3.4 billion.


4 Samsung's also got a construction division which has built the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa. Beside these the popular landmark buildings like Petronas tower of Kuala Lumpur and Taipei 101 of Taipei are of Samsung contructions. 





4 Samsung accounts for 17 percent of Korea's GDP(Gross Domestic Product) which is of  $1,082 billion.


BONUS FACT : IN SAMSUNG'S LOGO WE CAN SEE ITS OPEN IN TWO SIDES IN S AND G. THIS SHOWS THE OPENNESS OF SAMSUNG TOWARDS ITS CUSTOMERS.