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Mountain Region

Hilly Region

Terai Region

Fig: 1

b. Climate
The climatic condition of a place affects distribution of population. Generally, people like
to live in the places having favorable climate. Mountain region has extremely cold climate.
Hilly region has moderate climate where as terai region has hot and humid climate. Life
is very hard in mountain region. Hence people do not like to live in mountain region and
migrate to other regions. This causes decrease of population in mountain region.

c. Cultivable land
Mountain region contains 2% cultivable land. Hilly region contains 10 % cultivable land
and terai region contains 17 % cultivable land. People like to live in such place which
has more cultivable land. People can grow various types of food and cash crops in terai
region to sustain their life than in mountain and hilly region. Hence, people from hilly
and mountain region migrate to terai region in search of cultivable land.

d. Availability of facilities
People like to make their life easier, more
comfortable and improve their living standard.
That is possible only when people get required
facilities in the place where they live. Terai region
has got several facilities like health services,
education, transportation, communication,
security, entertainment, sanitation, electricity, etc.
than in mountain and hilly region. Hence, people Fig: 2
from other regions are attracted towards terai
region for various facilities. Similarly, some of the urban areas contain many facilities in
Nepal. Thus, people from rural areas migrate to urban areas in search of facilities.
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