Nepal is a country.
The Himalayan states are a group of countries straddling the Himalayan mountain range in Asia . Nepal . Nepal ( [ Nepālhelp = no ] } } [ neˈpal ] ) , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal , is a landlocked central Himalayan country in South Asia . Nepal is divided into 7 provinces and 75 districts and 744 local units including 4 metropolises , 13 sub-metropolises , 246 municipal councils and 481 villages . Schedule 4 of the new Constitution of Nepal , adopted on 20 September 2015 , provides for the division of the country into seven Provinces .