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Nepal

Home to Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak at 8,849m, straddling Nepal's border with China. Never colonized, Nepal was unified into a single kingdom in 1768 by Prithvi Narayan Shah, and today its flag is the only national flag in the world that isn't a rectangle.

Mount Everest and the Himalayan range seen from the Sagarmatha region of Nepal

Mount Everest and the Himalaya

Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0

The world's only non-quadrilateral national flag. Its two stacked pennants evoke the Himalayas; the moon and sun, the hope that Nepal lasts as long as they do.

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