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Topographic map of Bhutan. Bhutan is a sovereign country at the crossroads of East Asia and South Asia, located towards the eastern extreme of the Himalayas mountain range. It is fairly evenly sandwiched between the sovereign territory of two nations: first, the People's Republic of China (PRC) on the north and northwest.
Bhutan, [a] officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, [b] [14] (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ; Wylie: 'Druk gyal khab) is a landlocked country in South Asia, situated in the Eastern Himalayas between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north and India in the south, with the Indian state of Sikkim separating it from neighbouring Nepal.
As Bhutan declines to have diplomatic relations with any U.N. Security Council member, it has no official ties with regional superpower China, nor the U.S. Bhutan’s ngultrum currency is pegged ...
Bhutan aspires to enhance the happiness of its people and GNH serves as a measurement tool for realizing that aspiration. [65] Other criticism focuses on the standard of living in Bhutan. In an article written in 2004 in the Economist magazine, "The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is not in fact an idyll in a fairy tale. It is home to perhaps ...
Thrumshing La, also called Thrumshingla Pass and Donga Pass, (Dzongkha: ཁྲུམས་ཤིང་ལ་; Wylie: khrums-shing la; "Thrumshing Pass"), is the second-highest mountain pass in Bhutan, [1] connecting its central and eastern regions across the otherwise impregnable Donga range that has separated populations for centuries.
Bhutan's hydropower potential and its attraction for tourists are key resources. The Bhutanese Government has made some progress in expanding the nation's productive base and improving social welfare. In 2010, Bhutan became the first country in the world to ban smoking and the selling of tobacco. In order to stamp out cross-border smuggling ...
Gangkhar Puensum (Dzongkha: གངས་དཀར་སྤུན་གསུམ་, romanized: Kangkar Punsum, alternatively, Gangkar Punsum or Gankar Punzum) is the highest mountain in Bhutan and the highest unclimbed mountain in the world, with an elevation of 7,570 metres (24,836 ft) and a prominence of 2,995 metres (9,826 ft). [1]
Kuri Chhu is a tributary of the Manas River system, which is the largest river of Bhutan and a major tributary of the Brahmaputra River that drains most of Eastern Bhutan. [3] [5] The road from Mongar to Lheuntse Dzong is a 3 hours drive over a distance of 74 kilometres (46 mi) and 63 kilometres (39 mi) from its junction at Gangola.