With an area of 147,516 km2 (56,956 sq mi), Nepal has an approximately trapezoidal form and is roughly 800 km (500 mi) long by 200 km (120 mi) wide. Between 26° and 31°N and 80° and 89°E longitudes is where it is located. The basic geological processes that formed Nepal started 75 million years ago, when the Indian plate, which was then a component of the southern supercontinent Gondwana, began to move north-eastward as a result of the seabed spreading to its south-west, and l...