Agony of being a landlocked country:Nepal

Nepal is not only the country which is ill-fated and unfortunate for being a landlocked country. There are all together 49 countries in the world which are landlocked i.e enclosed completely by land or which has coastline with the closed sea. Majority of these countries falls in Least Developing countries and underdeveloped countries with exceptions like Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg. 9 out of 12 countries that has lowest Human Development Index (HDI) is a landlocked country. Looking back to world history, many  big and small countries invested wealth, bloodshed to get access to open waters for trade purposes. And those who were successful. are among the wealthiest countries. Rulers and people knew that being a landlocked country handicaps you politically, socially and economically. Now let's think about our own history and scroll back to the time when King Prithvi Narayan Shah began conquering small states and his descendants completed unification process. Although