Monday, September 6, 2010

Flora of Sikkim

Sikkim is situated in an ecological hotspot of the lower Himalayas, one of only three among the Ecoregions of India. The forested regions of the state exhibit a diverse range of fauna and flora. Owing to its altitudinal gradation, the state has a wide variety of plants, from tropical to temperate to alpine and tundra, [...]

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Sikkim (Limbu: About this sound Sikkim (help·info), Tibetan: འབྲས་ལྗོངས་, ‘bras ljongs; Denzong[1]) is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India and the second-smallest in area after Goa.[2] The thumb-shaped state borders Nepal in the west, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north and the [...]