Bhutan
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Bhutan, offeecally the Kinrick o Bhutan (pronoonced /buːˈtɑːn/ ( listen); Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཡུལ་; Wylie: 'drug yul; Tibetan pinyin: Zhugyü), is a sma landlocked kintra in Sooth Asie, locatit at the eastren end o the Himalayas an bordered tae the sooth, east an wast bi the Republic o Indie an tae the north bi the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae. Bhutan is separatit frae the nearbi state o Nepal tae the wast bi the Indian state o Sikkim, an frae Bangladesh tae the sooth bi Wast Bengal.
Kinrick o Bhutan འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ | |
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Caipital and largest city | Thimphu 27°28.0′N 89°38.5′E |
Offeecial leids | Dzongkha |
Demonym(s) | Bhutanese |
Govrenment | Unitary pairlamentary constitutional monarchy |
• Keeng | Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck |
• Prime Meenister | Tshering Tobgay |
Legislatur | Pairlament |
• Upper house | Naitional Cooncil |
• Lower house | Naitional Assembly |
Formation Early 17t century | |
• Wangchuk Dynasty | 17 December 1907 |
2007 | |
Aurie | |
• Total | 38,394 km2 (14,824 sq mi)[1][2] (135th) |
• Water (%) | 1.1 |
Population | |
• 2012 estimate | 742,737[3] (165t) |
• 2005a census | 634,982[4] |
• Density | 18.0/km2 (46.6/sq mi) (196t) |
GDP (PPP) | 2011 estimate |
• Total | $4.287 billion[5] |
• Per capita | $6,112[5] |
GDP (nominal) | 2011 estimate |
• Tot | $1.488 billion[5] |
• Per capita | $2,121[5] |
Gini (2012) | 38.7[6] medium |
HDI (2013) | 0.538[7] law · 140t |
Currency | Bhutanese ngultrumb (BTN) |
Time zone | UTC+6 (BTT) |
UTC+6 (nae observed) | |
Drivin side | left |
Cawin code | +975 |
ISO 3166 code | BT |
Internet TLD | .bt |
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Till the early 17t century, Bhutan existit as a patchwirk o minor warrin fiefdoms, when the aurie wis unified bi the Tibetan lama an military leader Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal who fled releegious persecution in Tibet an cultivatit a separate Bhutanese identity. In the early 20t century, Bhutan came unner the influence o the Breetish Empire, an then upon Indian independence, that o Indie. In 2006, Business Week magazine ratit Bhutan the happiest kintra in Asie an the aicht-happiest in the warld based on a global survey.[10] The caipital ceety o Bhutan is Thimphu. Its offeecial leid is Dzongkha.