Our World
One round planet, 195 countries, and our small place among them: the world as it looks from Nepal, to explore and then to play.
Explore
World Map
Spin the globe and tap any country: its flag, its capital, how many people live there, how big it is next to Nepal, how far it is from Kathmandu, and what time it is there now.
Time Zones
What time is it in Peru right now? Every time zone on the globe, with day and night as they are now. Move the clock and watch noon sweep around the world.
Earth’s Extremes
The highest, the deepest, the hottest, the coldest, the wettest, and the place farthest from any land: more than a hundred of the planet’s record places as dots on the globe, from Everest to the bottom of the sea.
The Other Side of the Earth
Dig straight down through the middle of the Earth: where would you come out? Tap anywhere to find the place exactly opposite. From Nepal, it’s the sea.
Earth’s Magnetic Field
Which way does a compass really point? See the field lines over the whole Earth, and slide through the years since 1900 as the magnetic north pole wanders from Canada towards Siberia.
True Size
Drag Greenland down to Africa and watch it shrink, or Nepal up to the Arctic and watch it grow: why the flat maps on our phones get sizes wrong.
Flat Maps
Why every flat map gets something wrong. The same world drawn eleven ways, from Mercator to a map centered on Kathmandu to a peeled globe, and what each one keeps and breaks.
Flags of the World
All 195 flags. Find the ones with a moon, a cross or an animal, the ones that are red and green, and the flags so alike that even grown-ups mix them up.
Draw Nepal’s Flag
The only flag that isn’t a rectangle, and the Constitution says exactly how to draw it, with a ruler and compasses. Follow its 24 steps.
Play
Journey
Travel from one country to another by land, naming the countries you cross on the way. Five journeys, from Nepal outwards: the fewer guesses you need, the more points.
Flags and Capitals
Ten questions: name the country, find its flag among four that look a lot like it, or pick its capital. Play flags, capitals, or both mixed, then see each answer on the globe.
Practice
The countries are the 193 members of the United Nations, plus Vatican City and Palestine, its two observer states. Borders are drawn as Nepal sees them, with Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura in Nepal; Kashmir is shown divided along the line of control, as on most maps. Maps from Natural Earth, with Nepal’s outline from the district map in 77 Districts; facts from Wikidata; flags from Wikimedia Commons; time zones from timezone-boundary-builder, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); the magnetic field from IGRF-14 (IAGA).