Land and people of Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Maldives

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Land and people of Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and
Maldives

• Shelby Carroll
• 3rd period

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Nepal

• 80 of land is mountains
• Has 8 of 10 highest peaks in the world
• Resources forests
• Land Use Substance farming, little or no
  activity
  
• 25.2 million people
• 85 line in rural villages

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Bhutan

• Himalaya are a major land form
• 900,000 people
• 90 substance farmers
• Resources hydroelectric power
• Land Use Substance, little or no actvity

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Sri Lanka

• Pear-shaped island about 20 miles off southeast
  coast of India
  
• 19.3 million people
• 74 Sinhalese, mostly Buddhist
• 18 Tamil, mostly Hindu
• Resources fish, forests, pearls
• Land use Commercial farms grow tea, coconuts,
  rubber, substance farming, little or no activity

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Maldives

• 1,200 coral islands atolls
• 370 miles south of India
• 300,000 people
• Ancestors came from India and Ceylon
• Mostly Muslim
• Resource fish
• Major economic activity