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In November 2025, Nepal's central bank quietly turned a banknote into a foreign-policy statement: the redesigned 100-rupee note carries a revised national map that depicts the Himalayan border zones of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura as Nepali territory — land India also claims as its own, prompting an immediate protest from New Delhi. It is a rare case of a sovereign cartographic dispute being printed straight into everyday cash. The same note pairs Mount Everest with a rhododendron watermark, fusing geography, identity and statecraft into a piece of paper most Nepalis handle every day.

• Currency map Nepal's new 100-rupee note, issued in November 2025, prints a revised national map claiming the disputed Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura border areas — baking a territorial dispute with India directly into the country's cash.
• Passport power In the 2026 Henley Passport Index the Nepali passport ranked 97th with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to just 35 destinations, tying it with North Korea among the world's weakest travel documents.
• Citizenship Under Nepal's constitution a Nepali father confers citizenship by descent automatically, but a mother can only pass it on if she was born and resides in Nepal and legally declares the father 'unidentified' — a gender gap that has left many Nepalis effectively stateless.
• Bullet coins In 1955 Nepal minted 4-paisa coins struck from spent rifle cartridge cases left by Gurkha soldiers who fought in the Pacific in World War II — a one-year-only issue made from recycled ammunition brass.
• Currency peg The Nepalese rupee has been pegged to the Indian rupee since 1994 at a fixed rate of 1.60 NPR to 1 INR — so Nepal's money quietly shadows its giant neighbour's monetary policy.
• Unique flag Nepal carries the only non-rectangular national flag on Earth: two stacked crimson triangles bearing a moon and a sun, a shape so distinctive that its exact geometry is written into the country's constitution.
• Never colonised Nepal is one of the few Asian nations never colonised; despite the 1814–16 Anglo-Nepalese War, the 1923 Treaty of Friendship with Britain formally recognised its full internal and external independence.
• Buddha's birthplace The identity document of Nepal as a nation runs deep: Lumbini, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, is recognised as the birthplace of the Buddha, confirmed by a stone pillar that Emperor Ashoka raised there around 249 BC.
• Roof of the world Mount Everest — known in Nepal as Sagarmatha — rises 8,849 metres on the Nepal–Tibet border and now appears on Nepal's 100-rupee note, putting the world's highest point literally in people's pockets.