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Bhutan ('), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan ('), is a landlocked country in South Asia.

Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north, the Sikkim state of India and the Chumbi Valley of Tibet in the west, the Arunachal Pradesh state of India in the east, and the states of Assam and West Bengal in the south.

Bhutan is geopolitically in South Asia and is the region's second least populous nation after the Maldives.

Thimphu is its capital and largest city, while Phuntsholing is its financial center.

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

It is located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

With an estimated population of 26.4 million, it is 48th largest country by population and 93rd largest country by area.

It borders China in the north and India in the south, east, and west while Bangladesh is located within only 27 km (17 mi) of its southeastern tip and Bhutan is separated from it by the Indian state of Sikkim.

Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth.

Kathmandu is the nation's capital and largest city.

Nepal is a multiethnic nation with Nepali as the official language.

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Qiang, and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han Chinese and Hui people.

Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of.

The highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest, Earth's highest mountain, rising 8,848 m (29,029 ft) above sea level.

Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one's back, while hiking for more than a day.

It is often but not always an extended journey, and may or may not involve camping outdoors.

In North America tenting is common, where simple shelters and mountain huts widely found in Europe are rare.

In New Zealand, tramping is the term applied though overnight huts are frequently used.

Hill walking is an equivalent in Britain (but this can also refer to a day walk), though backpackers make use of all kinds of accommodation, in addition to camping.

Backpackers use simple huts in South Africa.

Similar terms used in other countries are trekking and bushwalking.

Mountaineering is the sport of mountain climbing.

While some scholars identify mountaineering-related activities as climbing (rock and ice) and trekking up mountains, others are also adding backpacking, hiking, skiing, via ferrata and wilderness activities, and still others state that mountaineering activities also include indoor climbing, sport climbing and bouldering.

However, to most of the scholars, the term mountaineering is understood as climbing (which now refers to adventure climbing or sports climbing) and trekking (hill walking in 'exotic' places).

Hiking in the mountains can also be a simple form of mountaineering when it involves scrambling, or short stretches of the more basic grades of rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers.