Land and people of Nepal, Bhutan Sri Lanka and Maldives

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Land and people of Nepal, Bhutan Sri Lanka and
Maldives

• Marissa Guzman
• Period 4

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Nepal

• 80 of land is mountains
• Has 8 of 10 highest peaks in the world
• Resources Forests
• Land use Subsistence farming, little or no
  activity
• 25.2 million people
• 85 live in rural villages

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Bhutan

• Himalayas are major land forms
• 900,000 thousand people
• 90 subsistence farmers
• Resource Hydroelectric power
• Land use Subsistence farming, little or no
  activity

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Sri Lanka

• Pear-shaped island 20 miles off the south east
  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, subsistence farming

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Maldives

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