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Bhutan

The Kingdom of Bhutan is a small country in the between and . Besides the stunning natural scenery, the enduring image of the country for most visitors is the strong sense of culture and tradition that binds the kingdom and clearly distinguishes it from its larger neighbours.
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is the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan, and with a population of around 115,000, it is the nation's largest city.

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is a town and seat of , in the Valley of Bhutan. It is an historic town with many sacred sites and historical buildings scattered throughout the area.

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, the second largest town in Bhutan, is on the border, next to the town of .

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is a region in Bhutan.

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is a region in Bhutan.

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is a very picturesque and historically and culturally important region of the country.

Bhutan

Latitude of center
27.44° or 27° 26′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
90.48° or 90° 28′ 48″ east
Population
672,000
Area
47,000 km² (18,147 miles²)
Elevation
1,816 metres (5,958 feet)
Capital
Currency
Ngultrum (BTN)
Phone code
.bt
Internet domain
975
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424311028
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
1252634
Wiki­data ID
Q917
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Bhutan” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Бутан”
  • Achinese: “Bhutan”
  • Adyghe: “Бутан”
  • Afrikaans: “Bhoetan”
  • Akan: “Butan”
  • Albanian: “Butan”
  • Albanian: “Butani”
  • Amharic: “ቡህታን”
  • Amharic: “ቡታን”
  • Amis: “Bhutan”
  • Angika: “भूटान”
  • Arabic: “بوتان”
  • Arabic: “مملكة بوتان”
  • Aragonese: “Bután”
  • Armenian: “Բութան”
  • Armenian: “Բուտան”
  • Arpitan: “Botan”
  • Arpitan: “Boutan”
  • Assamese: “ভুটান”
  • Assamese: “ভূটান”
  • Asturian: “Bhután”
  • Asturian: “Bután”
  • Atayal: “Bhutan”
  • Awadhi: “भूटान”
  • Azerbaijani: “Butan”
  • Balinese: “Bhutan”
  • Bambara: “Butaŋ”
  • Banjar: “Bhutan”
  • Bashkir: “Бутан”
  • Basque: “Bh2utan”
  • Basque: “Bhutan”
  • Bavarian: “Bhutan”
  • Belarusian: “Бутан”
  • Bengali: “ভুটান”
  • Bengali: “ভূটান”
  • Betawi: “Butan”
  • Bhojpuri: “भूटान”
  • Bishnupriya: “ভুটান”
  • Bislama: “Bhutan”
  • Bosnian: “Butan”
  • Brahui: “Bhúŧán”
  • Breton: “Bhoutan”
  • Bulgarian: “Бутан”
  • Bulgarian: “Кралство Бутан”
  • Burmese: “ဘူတန်”
  • Burmese: “ဘူတန်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Bhutan”
  • Catalan: “Regne de Bhutan”
  • Cebuano: “Bhutan”
  • Central Bikol: “Butan”
  • Central Kurdish: “بووتان”
  • Chavacano: “Bután”
  • Chechen: “Бутан”
  • Cherokee: “ᏊᏔᏂ”
  • Chinese: “Bhutan”
  • Chinese: “Bùdān”
  • Chinese: “不丹”
  • Chinese: “不丹王国”
  • Chinese: “不丹王國”
  • Chuvash: “Бутан Корольлӗхӗ”
  • Chuvash: “Бутан”
  • Cornish: “Bhoutan”
  • Corsican: “Bhutan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Butan”
  • Croatian: “Butan”
  • Croatian: “Kraljevina Butan”
  • Czech: “Bhútán”
  • Dagbani: “Bhutan”
  • Danish: “Bhutan”
  • Dhivehi: “ބޫޓާން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Butan”
  • Dotyali: “भुटान”
  • Dotyali: “भूटान”
  • Dutch: “Bhoetan”
  • Dutch: “Bhutan”
  • Dutch: “BT”
  • Dutch: “BTN”
  • Dutch: “Koninkrijk Bhutan”
  • Dzongkha: “འབྲུག་ཡུལ་”
  • Dzongkha: “འབྲུག”
  • Dzongkha: “འབྲུགཡུལ་་”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бутан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوتان”
  • Erzya: “Бутан Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Butano”
  • Esperanto: “Reĝlando Butano”
  • Estonian: “Bhutan”
  • Estonian: “Bhutani Kuningriik”
  • Ewe: “Bhutan nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Bután”
  • Faroese: “Butan”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bhutan”
  • Finnish: “Bhutan”
  • Finnish: “Bhutanin kuningaskunta”
  • French: “Bhoutan”
  • French: “Bhutan”
  • French: “BT”
  • French: “le Royaume du Bhoutan”
  • Fulah: “Butaan”
  • Fulah: “Butan”
  • Gagauz: “Butan”
  • Galician: “Bután”
  • Ganda: “Butaani”
  • Georgian: “ბუტანი”
  • Georgian: “ბჰუტანი”
  • German: “Bhutan”
  • German: “bt”
  • German: “Königreich Bhutan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bhutan”
  • Gilaki: “بۊتان”
  • Goan Konkani: “Bhutan”
  • Goan Konkani: “भूतान”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌿𐍄𐌰”
  • Greek: “Βασίλειο του Μπουτάν”
  • Greek: “Μπουτάν”
  • Guarani: “Vutã”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Boutan”
  • Gujarati: “ભૂટાન”
  • Gujarati: “ભૂતાન”
  • Haitian: “Boutan”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bhutan”
  • Hausa: “Bhutan”
  • Hausa: “Butan”
  • Hawaiian: “Butana”
  • Hebrew: “בהוטאן”
  • Hebrew: “בהוטן”
  • Hebrew: “בוטאן”
  • Hebrew: “בוטן”
  • Hebrew: “מדינת בוטאן”
  • Hindi: “भूटान”
  • Hungarian: “Bhután”
  • Hungarian: “Bhutáni Királyság”
  • Icelandic: “Bútan”
  • Ido: “Bhutan”
  • Igbo: “Bhutan”
  • Iloko: “Butan”
  • Inari Sami: “Bhutan kunâgâskodde”
  • Inari Sami: “Bhutan”
  • Indonesian: “Bhutan”
  • Interlingua: “Bhutan”
  • Interlingue: “Bhutan”
  • Irish: “An Bhútain”
  • Irish: “an Bhútáin”
  • Irish: “An Bhútáin”
  • Italian: “Bhutan”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Buutan”
  • Japanese: “ブータン”
  • Japanese: “ブータン王国”
  • Javanese: “Bhutan”
  • Kabiyè: “Butaŋ”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Butan”
  • Kabyle: “Butan”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Bhutan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bhutan”
  • Kalmyk: “Бутанмудин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಭುತಾನ”
  • Kannada: “ಭೂತಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Butan”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бутан”
  • Kashmiri: “بھوٗٹان”
  • Kashmiri: “بوٗٹان”
  • Kashmiri: “भूटान”
  • Kashubian: “Bhutan”
  • Kazakh: “Бутан Патшалығы”
  • Kazakh: “Бутан”
  • Khmer: “ប៊ូតង់”
  • Khmer: “ប៊ូតាន”
  • Khmer: “ភូតាន”
  • Kikuyu: “Bhutan”
  • Kikuyu: “Butani”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Butani”
  • Kirghiz: “Бутан”
  • Komering: “Bhutan”
  • Komi: “Бутан”
  • Kongo: “Bhutan”
  • Kongo: “Kingdom of Bhutan”
  • Korean: “부탄”
  • Kurdish: “Bûtan”
  • Kurdish: “بووتان”
  • Ladin: “Bhutan”
  • Ladino: “Butan”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດພູຖານ”
  • Lao: “ພູຖານ”
  • Latin: “Bhutan”
  • Latin: “Bhutania”
  • Latin: “Butania”
  • Latvian: “Butāna”
  • Lezghian: “Бутан”
  • Ligurian: “Bhutan”
  • Limburgan: “Bhoetaan”
  • Limburgan: “Bhutan”
  • Lingala: “Butáni”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Butan”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Druciul”
  • Literary Chinese: “不丹”
  • Lithuanian: “Butanas”
  • Livvi: “Butan”
  • Lombard: “Bhutan”
  • Low German: “Bhutaan”
  • Low German: “Bhutan”
  • Low German: “Butan”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bhutan”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Butani”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bhutan”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bhutan”
  • Macedonian: “Бутан”
  • Maithili: “भुटान”
  • Malagasy: “Bhotana”
  • Malagasy: “Botàna”
  • Malay: “Bhutan”
  • Malayalam: “ഭൂട്ടാന്‍”
  • Malayalam: “ഭൂട്ടാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Bhutan”
  • Maltese: “Butan”
  • Maltese: “il-Bhutan”
  • Maltese: “Renju tal-Bhutan”
  • Maltese: “Renju tal-Butan”
  • Manipuri: “ꯚꯨꯇꯥꯟ ꯅꯤꯡꯊꯧ ꯂꯩꯕꯥꯛ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯚꯨꯇꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “y Vutaan”
  • Manx: “Yn Vutaan”
  • Maori: “Putāna”
  • Marathi: “भूतान”
  • Mazanderani: “بوتان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bhutan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bhutan”
  • Minangkabau: “Bhutan”
  • Mingrelian: “ბჰუტანი”
  • Mirandese: “Buton”
  • Moksha: “Бутан”
  • Mongolian: “Бутан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوتان”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوطان”
  • Nauru: “Butan”
  • Navajo: “Iiʼniʼ Tłʼiishtsoh Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Bhutan”
  • Nepali: “भुटान”
  • Nepali: “भूटान”
  • Newari: “भुटान”
  • Newari: “भूटान”
  • North Ndebele: “Bhutani”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bhuutaan”
  • Northern Luri: “بوتان”
  • Northern Sami: “Bhutan gonagasriika”
  • Northern Sami: “Bhutan”
  • Northern Sami: “Bhután”
  • Northern Sami: “Bhutana gonagasriika”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bhutan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongeriket Bhutan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bhutan”
  • Norwegian: “Bhutan”
  • Novial: “Butan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Botan”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bhutan”
  • Oriya: “ଭୁଟାନ”
  • Oriya: “ଭୁଟାନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Buutan”
  • Ossetian: “Бутан”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဗူတန်ခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “भूटान”
  • Pampanga: “Bhutan”
  • Pampanga: “Butan”
  • Pangasinan: “Bhutan”
  • Panjabi: “ਭੂਟਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Bhutan”
  • Persian: “باتان”
  • Persian: “بوتان”
  • Picard: “Bhoutan”
  • Piemontese: “Bhutan”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Buuten”
  • Polish: “Bhutan”
  • Portuguese: “bt”
  • Portuguese: “Butão”
  • Portuguese: “Reino do Butão”
  • Pushto: “بهوټان”
  • Pushto: “بوتان”
  • Pushto: “بوټان”
  • Quechua: “Butan”
  • Quechua: “Bután”
  • Quechua: “Phutan”
  • Romanian: “Bhutan”
  • Romansh: “Bhutan”
  • Rundi: “Butani”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бутан”
  • Russian: “Бутан”
  • Russian: “Королевство Бутан”
  • Rusyn: “Бгутан”
  • Sakizaya: “Bhutan”
  • Samoan: “Bhutan”
  • Samoan: “Putani”
  • Samogitian: “Butans”
  • Sango: “Butäan”
  • Sanskrit: “भूटान”
  • Sanskrit: “भोटान्तदेशः”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱷᱩᱴᱟᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Bhutan”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bhutan”
  • Scots: “Bhutan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Butàn”
  • Serbian: “Butan”
  • Serbian: “Бутан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Butan”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၽူႇတၢၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Bhutan”
  • Shona: “Bhutani”
  • Sicilian: “Bhutan”
  • Silesian: “Bhutan”
  • Sindhi: “ڀوٽان”
  • Sinhala: “භූතානය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bhutaan koonǥõskåʹdd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bhutaan”
  • Slovak: “Bhután”
  • Slovak: “Bhutánske kráľovstvo”
  • Slovak: “Bután”
  • Slovenian: “Butan”
  • Somali: “Bhutan”
  • Somali: “Butaan”
  • Somali: “Buutan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوتان شاهلیغی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوتان”
  • Spanish: “Butan”
  • Spanish: “Bután”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Butan”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Bután”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Butankondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵓⵜⴰⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Bhutan”
  • Sundanese: “Butan”
  • Swahili: “Bhutan”
  • Swahili: “Butani”
  • Swati: “IBhuthani”
  • Swedish: “Bhutan”
  • Swedish: “Konungariket Bhutan”
  • Swiss German: “Bhutan”
  • Sylheti: “ꠜꠥꠐꠣꠘ ꠞꠣꠁꠎ꠆ꠎ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠜꠥꠐꠣꠘ”
  • Tagalog: “Bhutan”
  • Tagalog: “Butan”
  • Tajik: “Бутан”
  • Tajik: “Бутон”
  • Tajik: “Шоҳигарии Бутан”
  • Talysh: “Butan”
  • Tamil: “பூடான்”
  • Tamil: “பூட்டான்”
  • Taroko: “Bhutan”
  • Tatar: “Бутан”
  • Telugu: “భూటాన్”
  • Tetum: “Butaun”
  • Thai: “ดรุกยุล”
  • Thai: “ประเทศภูฏาน”
  • Thai: “ภูฏาน”
  • Thai: “ภูฐาน”
  • Thai: “ราชอาณาจักรภูฏาน”
  • Tibetan: “འབྲུག་ཡུལ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ቡህታን”
  • Tigrinya: “ቡታን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Bhutan”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pūtani”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bhutan”
  • Tsonga: “Bhutan”
  • Tulu: “ಭೂತಾನ್”
  • Tumbuka: “Bhutan”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “بوتان”
  • Turkish: “Bhutan”
  • Turkish: “Butan”
  • Turkmen: “Butan”
  • Twi: “Butan”
  • Udmurt: “Бутан”
  • Uighur: “بۇتان”
  • Ukrainian: “Бутан”
  • Ukrainian: “Королівство Бутан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bhutan”
  • Urdu: “بھوٹان”
  • Uzbek: “Butan”
  • Venetian: “Bhutan”
  • Venetian: “Butan”
  • Veps: “Butan”
  • Vietnamese: “Bhutan”
  • Vietnamese: “Bu-tan (Bhutan)”
  • Vietnamese: “Vương quốc Bhutan”
  • Vlax Romani: “Bhutan”
  • Volapük: “Butän”
  • Võro: “Bhutan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Butan”
  • Welsh: “Bhutan”
  • Welsh: “Bhwtan”
  • Western Armenian: “Պութան”
  • Western Balochi: “بوتان”
  • Western Frisian: “Bhutan”
  • Western Frisian: “Bûtan”
  • Western Panjabi: “بھوٹان”
  • Wolof: “Butaan”
  • Wolof: “Butaŋ”
  • Wu Chinese: “不丹”
  • Xhosa: “Bhutan”
  • Yakut: “Бутан”
  • Yiddish: “בהוטאן”
  • Yiddish: “בהוטאַן”
  • Yoruba: “Bhùtán”
  • Yoruba: “Bútánì”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Bútánì”
  • Yue Chinese: “不丹”
  • Zeeuws: “Bhutan”
  • Zhuang: “Bhutan”
  • Zhuang: “Budanh”
  • Zulu: “i-Bhutan”
  • “Bhutan”
  • “Butan”
  • “Butans”
  • “ma Tuku”
  • “भूटान”

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