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| |+ style="margin-left: inherit; font-size: 135%; padding-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 1.1em;" | '''The Rajadom of Lo'''<br/>'''Lo Manthang'''
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| | colspan="2" style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; font-size: 95%;" | [[]]<br />map of Lo
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | '''Capitals'''
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| | Royal
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | Mantang
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| | Administrative
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | Jomsom
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | '''Provinces with Capitals'''
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| | Mustang
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| | Dolpo
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | Dunai
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| | Manang
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | Chame
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Government'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top;" | absolute monarchy
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| | '''Head of State and Government'''
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0.2em 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | His Royal Highness Ashtok Bista
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | '''Demonym'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | Lotian
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Religions'''
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | Buddhism
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| | Other
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | Hinduism
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Languages'''
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | Tibetan, Lepcha, Limbu
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| | Other
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | Nepali
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Founding'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top;" | 1380
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Independence'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top;" | 1790
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Area'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | 10,293 km²<br>3,974 mi²
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Population (2001)'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | 54,113
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| | Ethnicities
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | Bhutia 53%<br>Lepcha 25%<br>Limbu 12%<br>Nepali 10%
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Currency'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" |1 Himalayan Rupee (Rs) = 20 sukaa (?) = 240 paisa (?)
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Time zone'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | CET UTC+5:30
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Telephone Code'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Registration'''
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| | [[wikipedia:call sign#Aviation|Aviation]]
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | LOM
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| | [[wikipedia:call sign#Amateur_radio|Amateur radio]]
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | LOM
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| | [[wikipedia:ITU prefix|Radio prefix]]
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| | style="padding: 0 1em 0 0; text-align:left; vertical-align: top;" | LOM
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Organizations'''
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;" | Commission on Very Small States<br>Himalayan Confederacy
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| | style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''Sports'''
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| | Other
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| Texts in '''bold''' print are points of departure.
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| ==History==
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| Text in '''bold''' print indicates a PoD.
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| Kashmir was one of the major centers of Sanskrit scholarship. According to the [[Wikipedia:Mahabharata|Mahabharata]], the [[Wikipedia:Kamboja|Kambojas]] ruled Kashmir during the [[Wikipedia:Indian epic poetry|epic]] period with a republican system of government from the capital city of Rajapura. Later, the [[Wikipedia:Panchala|Panchala]]s established their sway and their king Pravarasena II founded the city of [[Wikipedia:Srinagar|Parvasenpur]]. [[Wikipedia:Asoka|Asoka]], the great ruler of the [[Wikipedia:Maurya|Mauryan]] introduced Buddhism to the region.
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| Kashmir became an important seat of Buddhist learning, dominated by the [[Wikipedia:Sarvastivada|Sarvastivadan]] school. Monks from eastern and central Asia visited the kingdom. In the late fourth century A.D., the famous [[Wikipedia:Kucha]]nese monk [[Wikipedia:Kumarajiva|Kumārajīva]], born to an Indian noble family, studied Dirghagama and Madhyagama in Kashmir under the great scholar[[Wikipedia:Bandhudatta|Bandhudatta]]. He later becoming a prolific translator who helped introduce Buddhism to China. [[Wikipedia:Vimalaksa|Vimalaksa]], a Sarvastivadan Buddhist monk, travelled from Kashmir to Kucha and there instructed Kumarajiva in the ''[[Wikipedia:Buddhist texts#Vinaya|Vinayapitaka]]''.
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| ==Muslim rule==
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| ===Shah Mir Swati (Reigned 1339-42)===
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| Shams-ud-Din Shah Mir was a ruler of Kashmir and the founder of the Shah Miri dynasty named after him. Jonaraja, in his Rajatarangini mentioned him as Sahamera. He came from Swat, the then (Tribal) territory on the borders of Afghanistan and played a notable role in subsequentive political history of the valley. Shahmir became the ruler of Kashmir and reigned for three years.He was the first ruler of [[Swati (tribe)|Swati]] dynasty, which had established in 1339.
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| Shah Mir was succeeded by his eldest son Jamshid, but he was deposed by his brother Ali Sher probably within few months, who ascended the throne under the name of Alauddin[1].
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| In the 14th century, [[Islam]] gradually became the dominant religion in Kashmir, starting with the conversion in 1323 of Rincana, the first king of the [[Sayyid Dynasty]] from Ladakh.
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| The [[Muslim]]s and [[Hindu]]s of Kashmir lived in relative harmony, since the Sufi-Islamic way of life that ordinary Muslims followed in Kashmir complemented the [[Rishi]] tradition of [[Kashmiri Pandit]]s. This led to a syncretic culture where Hindus and Muslims revered the same local saints and prayed at the same shrines. The famous sufi saint Bulbul Shah was able to persuade the king of the time Rinchan Shah from Ladakh to adopt the Islamic way of life, and the foundation of Sufiana composite culture was laid when Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists were co-existing.
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| Several Kashmiri rulers, such as Sultan [[Zain-ul-Abidin]], were tolerant of all religions in a manner comparable to [[Akbar]]. However, several Muslim rulers of Kashmir were intolerant to other religions. Sultãn [[Sikandar Butshikan]] of Kashmir (AD 1389-1413) and his (former Brahmin) minister Saif ud-Din are often considered the worst of these. Historians have recorded many of his atrocities. The [[Tarikh-i-Firishta]] records that Sikandar persecuted the Hindus and issued orders proscribing the residence of any other than Muslims in Kashmir.''
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| The Caliphate used Persia as something of a staging post for their expansions into [[Afghanopakistan|Afghanistan]] and [[India]] (also enslaving many Turkic peoples and taking them back to Baghdad to serve as cavalry troops) but had little effect on the mass of the people. For some three centuries, a largely Zoroastrian populace sullenly submitted to Muslim rule. However, with the extinction of the Zoroastrian élite, much of the Zoroastrian scripture and learning was lost during Abbasid rule.
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| ==Toponymy==
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| ==Government==
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| ====Provinces (''anchal'')====
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| ! style="background: #efefef; border-bottom: 2px solid gray;" | Area
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| | Mustang
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| | Jomsom
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| | 3,573 km²
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| | 29,545 (2001)
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| | Dolpa
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| | Dunai
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| | 7,889 km²
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| | Manang
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| | Chame
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| | 2,246 km²
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| | 9,587 (2001)
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| *Thus, the total area of the rajadom is 13,708 km², about the size of *here's* Montenegro.
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| *The 15 Mustang prefectures are Chhonkup, Lomanthan, Chhoser, Chanang, Sukkang, Dhami, Chhusang, Kagbeni, Jhong, Muktinath, Marpha, Tukuche, Kowang, Junjo, and Lete.
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| *The 14 Manang prefectures are Fu, Nar, Thoche, Tanki Manang, Khangsar, Bhraka, Nyawal, Gyasu, Manang, Pisang, Chame, Tachi Bogarcchap, Thoche, Dharapani.
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| *The 19 Dolpa prefectures are Bhijar, Saddang, Tinje, Phoksundo, Dho,Chhenka, Mukot, Sakartana, Dunai, Lawan, Raha, Tripunakot, Likhu, Pahada, Lohai, Kalika, Narku, Rimi, Sarmi.
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| ==Geography==
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| ===Borders===
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| Lo is bordered by on the:
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| North: Tibet<br>
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| West: Nepal ([[Wikipedia:Mugu District|Mugu]], [[Wikipedia:Jumla District|Jumla]])<br>
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| Southwest: Nepal ([[Wikipedia:Jajarkot District|Jajarkot]])<br>
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| South: Nepal ([[Wikipedia:Rukum District|Rukum]], [[Wikipedia:Myagdi District|Myagdi]], [[Wikipedia:Kaski District|Kaski]])<br>
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| Southeast: Nepal ([[Wikipedia:Lamjung District|Lamjung]])<br>
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| East: Nepal ([[Wikipedia:Gorkha District|Gorkha]])
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| '''The Rajahdom of Lo is contiguous with *here's* Nepali districts of Mustang, Dolpo, and Manang.'''
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| ==Climate==
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| ==Economy==
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| ==Demographics==
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| ==Culture==
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| ===National symbols===
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| *National mammal 1: [[Wikipedia:Cervus elaphus hodgsoni|Kashmiri stag]] (''Cervus elaphus hodgsoni'')
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| *National mammal 2: [[Wikipedia:|Wikipedia:]] ()
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| *National bird: [[Wikipedia:Garrulus lanceolatus|Lanceolated jay]] (''Garrulus lanceolatus'']
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| *National flower: [[Wikipedia:Rhododendron ponticum|Common rhododendron]] (''Rhododendron ponticum'')
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| *National tree: [[Wikipedia:Betula utilis|birch]] (''Betulus utilis'')
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| **The hoist half of the flag is white, the color of the snows on the sacred Himalayas, which symbolizes the secular tradition of the Rajadom. The [[Wikipedia:Chhatraratna|auspicious Parasol]] in the blue color of peace symbolizes His Majesty the King, whose noble actions enhance the Rajadom. Hence, it symbolizes that His Majesty is protector of the people of the Rajadom and the upholder of the secular foundations of the Rajadom.
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| **The fly half of the flag is maroon, the color of the robes of the monks and symbolizes the spiritual tradition. The golden [[Wikipedia:Dharmacakra|dharma wheel]], with the [[Wikipedia:Gankyil|gankyil]] in the center, symbolizes the flourishing of the Buddhist teachings in the Rajadom.
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| **The pale wavy green symbolizes the Gandaki River that flows through the Rajadom.
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| **The [[Wikipedia:Wind Horse|lung ta]] (wind horse) flies from fly to hoist symbolizing that the Buddhist tradition infuses the government of the Rajadom.
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| *National emblem:
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| **Per pale white and maroon, a pale wavy vert, on the dexter an auspicious parasol azure, on the sinister the Wheel of Dharma or; on a chief vert a wind horse courant to the dexter.
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| **For supporters, on the dexter a sand fox and on the sinister a musk deer, all proper.
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| **For a crest, a [[Wikipedia:vajra|vajra]] or rising out of a lotus white.
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| *National aviation roundel: a circle divided in half, white and red, a green stripe down the center.
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| *National instrument: [[Wikipedia:|Wikipedia:]]
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| ===Lotian holidays===
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| (Dates in ''italics'' are postponed)
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| | 14 February
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| | [[Wikipedia:Losar|Losar]]
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| | New Year
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| | 21 February
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| | ''The King's Birthday''
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| | [[Wikipedia:Chotrul Duchen|Chotrul Duchen]]
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| | [[Wikipedia:Vesak|Suga Dawa Duchen]]
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| | The Buddha's Birth, Enlightenment, and [[Wikipedia:Parinirvana|Parinirvana]] (2010 only)
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| | Chokhor Duchen
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| | The Buddha's First Sermon (2010 only)
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| |[[Wikipedia: Buddhist Holidays|Ulambana]]
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| | Thri-bab
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| | [[Wikipedia:Dasain|Dashain]]
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| | 29 October
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| | [[Wikipedia:Lhabab Duchen|Lhabab Duchen]]
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| | The Buddha's Descent to Earth (2010 only))
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| | 6 November
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| | The King's Coronation
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| ==Education==
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