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Nepal national cricket team
Nepal national men's cricket team, governed by the Cricket Association of Nepal, ICC Associate since 1996; gained ODI status in 2018, played 2014, 2024, 2026 T20 World Cups and 2023 Asia Cup, captained by Rohit Paudel.
Nepal national football team
Nepal national football team, the Gorkhalis, men's team of the All Nepal Football Association (founded 1951, FIFA member 1972). Debut 1972 vs China; honors: 2016 AFC Solidarity Cup, four South Asian Games golds; FIFA rank 177 (2026).
Nepal Premier League (नेपाल प्रिमियर लिग)
Nepal Premier League (नेपाल प्रिमियर लिग, NPL), CAN's T20 franchise cricket league founded 2024; eight teams, first season Nov 30–Dec 21, 2024 at Kirtipur; Janakpur Bolts first champions; Star Sports broadcast, Siddhartha Bank title sponsor.
Nepal Rastra Bank
Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) is the central bank of Nepal, which sets monetary and foreign exchange policy under the NRB Act 2002 to maintain price stability.
Nepal Research and Education Network
The Nepal Research and Education Network (NREN) is Nepal's national research and education network, a non-profit founded in 2007 connecting universities, colleges, hospitals, and libraries to global research networks.
Nepal Sambat
Nepal Sambat (नेपाल संवत्) is Nepal's traditional lunisolar calendar, counted from 879 CE and kept by the Newars; its new year begins with Mha Puja.
Nepal Stock Exchange Limited
Nepal Stock Exchange Limited (NEPSE) is the securities exchange of Nepal, converted from the Securities Exchange Centre in 1993, hosting about 267 listed firms with daily turnover near NPR 5.21 billion by 2025.
Nepalese Civil War
The Nepalese Civil War was a long conflict between the Government of Nepal and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), lasting from 1996 to 2006.
Nepalese cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2018–19
Nepal tour of UAE 2019 (Nepal tour of United Arab Emirates): six-match bilateral cricket series in Dubai, 25 January to 3 February 2019. Nepal won both the ODI series 2-1, its first ever ODI series win, and the T20I series 2-1.
Nepalese cuisine
Nepalese cuisine, also called Nepali cuisine, is the food of Nepal, a federation of regional and ethnic kitchens whose everyday staple is dal bhat tarkari.
Nepalese customary units of measurement
Nepalese customary units of measurement, also called Nepalese units of measurement, are traditional units of which land units like Ropani and Bigha remain officially used despite metrication in 1968.
Nepalese democracy movement
The Nepalese democracy movement is the series of uprisings, including the 1990 and 2006 Jana Andolan, that moved Nepal from absolute monarchy to a federal democratic republic.
Nepalese royal massacre
The Nepalese royal massacre (Durbar Hatyakanda) of 1 June 2001 killed King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya, and other royals at Narayanhiti Palace; the official inquiry blamed Crown Prince Dipendra, but public disbelief fueled conspiracy theories and hastened the monarchy's abolition.
Nepalese rupee (रु॰)
The Nepalese rupee (रु॰), also called the Nepali rupee, is Nepal's currency, issued by Nepal Rastra Bank, divided into 100 paisa, and pegged to the Indian rupee.
Nepali Communist Party (नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी)
Nepali Communist Party (नेपाली कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी, NCP), left-wing Nepali party formed November 5, 2025 by merging ten communist parties including the Maoist Centre and Unified Socialist; led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal; won 17 seats in the March 2026 election.
Nepali Congress
Nepali Congress (नेपाली कांग्रेस), Nepal's oldest major center-left party, founded 1946-47 in Indian exile; led the anti-Rana revolution, 1990 restoration of democracy, 2006 peace accord, and later split under president Gagan Thapa.
Nepali folk
Nepali folk, or lok geet, is Nepal's popular folk-music genre, standardized at Radio Nepal around 1950, with the improvised duet dohori its most popular form.
Nepali ghazal
Nepali ghazal (नेपाली गजल) is the Nepali-language adaptation of the ghazal, an Arabic-origin lyric form of self-contained couplets introduced from Hindi by Motiram Bhatta in the late 1880s.
Nepali hip hop
Nepali hip hop, known as Nephop or Nep-hop, is the Nepali-language rap scene of Nepal, from Girish's 1994 first single through the battle league Raw Barz to protest rap in the 2020s.
Nepali language
Nepali (नेपाली भाषा), also historically Gorkhali, Khas-kura, and Parbatiya, is the Devanagari-script Indo-Aryan official working language of Nepal, a constitutional language of India, with 44.6% of Nepal's population as mother-tongue speakers (2021 census).
Nepali Ramayana tradition
The Nepali Ramayana tradition centers on the Bhanubhaktiya Ramayana, Bhanubhakta Acharya's 1853 Nepali verse rendering of the Sanskrit Adhyatma Ramayana, regarded as Nepal's Ramcharitmanas and the first epic of Nepali poetry.
Nepali Sahitya Sammelan
Nepali Sahitya Sammelan (नेपाली साहित्य सम्मेलन), founded in 1924 in Darjeeling, India, is the oldest Nepali literary organization in India, promoting the Nepali language and literature.
Nepara
Nepara (Непара) is a Russian-language pop project founded in 2002 by Aleksandr Shoua and Victoria Talyshinskaya, known for the hits «Плачь и смотри» and «Бог тебя выдумал».
Nepathya
Nepathya (नेपथ्य) is a Nepali folk-rock band formed in 1990 in Pokhara, credited with creating the lok pop genre by fusing Nepali folk melodies with rock.
Nepean, Ontario
Nepean, Ontario: former township (1792) and city (1978) dissolved into Ottawa on January 1, 2001; west-end area of about 186,600 people (2021, with Barrhaven), distinct from Nepean Point and the federal riding.
Nepenthes
Nepenthes, tropical pitcher plants of the paleotropics (c. 150-160 species), trap prey in fluid-filled pitcher leaves with acidic, sometimes viscoelastic digestive fluid; some species use bat or treeshrew coprophagy or detritivory instead of insects.
Nepenthes × hookeriana
Nepenthes × hookeriana, or Hooker's Pitcher-Plant, is a natural hybrid pitcher plant between N. ampullaria and N. rafflesiana, widespread in Borneo, Sumatra, and Peninsular Malaysia.
Nepenthes × ventrata
Nepenthes × ventrata (Nepenthes ventricosa × alata) is a natural Philippine hybrid pitcher plant, a nomen nudum name by Fleming 1979, widely tissue-cultured as a beginner carnivorous plant and a transcriptomics model.
Nepenthes Mensae
Nepenthes Mensae is a large Martian region of mesas, knobs, and depressions along the dichotomy boundary, described by NASA as the largest mensae on Mars, at over 2,100 km across.
Nepenthes Planum
Nepenthes Planum is a high plain, or plateau, on Mars that sits on the planet's hemispheric dichotomy, the boundary between the southern cratered highlands and the northern sedimentary plains.