General Knowledge and Nepal Affairs
General Knowledge and Nepal Affairs tests Nepal's geography, history, culture, economy, and a small world-affairs layer. Questions are factual and elimination-friendly, so precise numbers and boundaries matter.
Core facts
- Administrative structure: 7 provinces, 77 districts, 753 local units (6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities, 276 municipalities, 460 rural municipalities), and 165 federal constituencies.
- Geography: three belts - Himal, Pahad, Terai; Mt Everest/Sagarmatha 8,848.86 m (2020 joint Nepal–China announcement); Kanchenjunga 8,586 m on the Nepal–India border.
- History: Prithvi Narayan Shah's Gorkha campaign unified Nepal; Kathmandu Valley was captured in 1768–69; the Anglo–Nepal War 1814–16 ended with the Sugauli Treaty 1816.
- Culture: UNESCO sites include seven monument zones of the Kathmandu Valley, Lumbini, Sagarmatha National Park, and Chitwan National Park.
Worked example
Question: "Which is the world's third-highest peak and lies on Nepal's eastern border?" Reason: Everest is first, K2 second, and Kanchenjunga third; Kanchenjunga sits on the Nepal–India boundary. Answer: Kanchenjunga (8,586 m).
Traps
- Writing 75 districts or 752 local units from older memory.
- Confusing Kanchenjunga with Makalu or Dhaulagiri.
- Mixing the 1814–16 war with the 1816 treaty date.
- Treating the 2020 revised Everest height as 8,848 m instead of 8,848.86 m.