Outline of Bhutan explained

See also: Index of Bhutan-related articles. thumb|The location of Bhutanthumb|An enlargeable map of the Kingdom of Bhutan

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Bhutan:

Bhutan  - landlocked sovereign country located in South Asia.[1] Bhutan is located amidst the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and is bordered to the south, east and west by India and to the north by China. Bhutan is separated from Nepal by the Indian state of Sikkim. The Bhutanese call their country Druk Yul (land of the thunder dragon).[2]

Foreign influences and tourism in Bhutan are regulated by the government to preserve the nation's traditional culture, identity and the environment. in 2006 Business Week rated Bhutan the happiest country in Asia and the eighth happiest country in the world.[3] The landscape ranges from subtropical plains in the south to the Himalayan heights in the north, with some peaks exceeding 7,000 metres (23,000 ft). The state religion is Vajrayana Buddhism, and the population is predominantly Buddhist, with Hinduism being the second-largest religion. The capital and largest city is Thimphu. After centuries of direct monarchic rule, Bhutan held its first democratic elections in March 2008. Bhutan is a member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

General reference

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Geography of Bhutan

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Geography of Bhutan

605 km

470 km

Environment of Bhutan

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Environment of Bhutan

Natural geographic features of Bhutan

Regions of Bhutan

Ecoregions of Bhutan

List of ecoregions in Bhutan

Administrative divisions of Bhutan

Administrative divisions of Bhutan

Districts of Bhutan
District Former spelling BhutaneseRomanization used by the Dzongkha Development Commission
བུམ་ཐང་Bºumtha
Chhukha ཆུ་ཁ་Chukha
དར་དཀར་ནང་Dºagana
མགར་ས་Gâsa
Haa ཧད་ / ཧཱ་
Lhuntshi ལྷུན་རྩེ་Lhüntsi
མོང་སྒར་Mongga
སྤ་གྲོ་Paro
Pemagatsel པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་Pemagatshä
སྤུ་ན་ཁ་Punakha
བསཾ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་Samdru Jongkha
Samchi བསམ་རྩེ་Samtsi
གསར་སྦང་Sarbang
ཐིམ་ཕུག་Thimphu
Tashigang བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་Trashigang
བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་Trashi'yangste
Tongsa ཀྲོང་གསར་Trongsa
Chirang རྩི་རང་Tsirang
Wangdi Phodrang དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་'Wangdi Phodrºa
Shemgang གཞལ་སྒང་Zhºämgang
Gewogs (village blocks) of Bhutan

Gewogs of Bhutan

Municipalities of Bhutan

Thromde

Demography of Bhutan

Demographics of Bhutan

Government and politics of Bhutan

Politics of Bhutan

Branches of government

Government of Bhutan

Executive branch of the government of Bhutan

Legislative branch of the government of Bhutan

Judicial branch of the government of Bhutan

Judicial system of Bhutan

Foreign relations of Bhutan

Foreign relations of Bhutan

Bhutanese refugees

International organization membership

The Kingdom of Bhutan is a member of:[1]

Law and order in Bhutan

Law of Bhutan

Military of Bhutan

Military of Bhutan

Local government in Bhutan

See main article: Local Government Act of Bhutan 2009.

History of Bhutan

History of Bhutan

Historical events

Historical families and figures

Historical government

  1. Bumthang Province
  2. Daga Province
  3. Kurmaed Province
  4. Kurtoed Province
  5. Paro Province
  6. Punakha Province
  7. Thimphu Province
  8. Trongsa Province
  9. Wangdue Phodrang Province

Ancient Kingdoms

Culture of Bhutan

Culture of Bhutan

Art in Bhutan

Languages in Bhutan

Languages of Bhutan

Sports in Bhutan

Sports in Bhutan

Economy and infrastructure of Bhutan

Economy of Bhutan

Education in Bhutan

Education in Bhutan

Health in Bhutan

Health in Bhutan

See also

Bhutan

Sources

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: July 2, 2009. Bhutan. The World Factbook. United States Central Intelligence Agency. July 23, 2009.
  2. Web site: Home | Library of Congress.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20061025024213/http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/10/happiest_countries/index_01.htm The World's Happiest Countries