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Insect Stamp of Nepal

The Kingdom of Nepal is sandwiched in between China and India, and it holds the mountains more than 8,000m such as Mount Everest of Himalayas maintain range, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Annaburna, and it is in the Buddha birth place, and it is a Hinduism nation. Roots of the Kingdom of Nepal depends on Gurkha having standardized a country as the Shah dynasty in 1769. It was defeated by war with the U.K. from 1814 to 1816 and retreated to a current border. It enter a teacher politics bottom by the person of Rana clan which got British support at middle part for about 100 years in the 19th century, and the Restoration of Imperial Rule is 1951. King Mahendra who succeeded to the throne to the king in 1955 abolished the constitution which it permitted political party activity in 1960 and established new constitution in 1962 and succeeded it to the Virendra king in 1972. A democratization demand was strengthened in 1990, and a general election was carried out after an interval of about 30 years in 1991, and Prime Minister Koirala was born in 1998.
Two kinds of insect stamps were issued in 2002 by this Kingdom of Nepal.
Two kinds of insect stamps are included in the inside issued five kinds as a biological diversity stamp in 2006 year. One kind of normal stamp on which longhorn beetle was drawn was issued at the same year.
One kind of stamp which it drew an insect on as a biological diversity stamp was issued in 2008.

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