Place:Outline of Bhutan

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Short description: Country in South Asia
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Bhutan:

Bhutanlandlocked 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 Himalaya n 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

An enlargeable basic map of Bhutan

Geography of Bhutan

An enlargeable topographic map of Bhutan

Geography of Bhutan

 India 605 km
 China 470 km
  • Coastline: none
  • Population of Bhutan: 672,425(2005)
  • Area of Bhutan: 47,000 square kilometres (18,000 sq mi) - 131st largest country
  • Atlas of Bhutan

Environment of Bhutan

An enlargeable satellite image of Bhutan

Environment of Bhutan

  • Climate of Bhutan
  • Environmental issues in Bhutan
  • Ecoregions in Bhutan
  • Renewable energy in Bhutan
  • Protected areas of Bhutan
  • Wildlife of Bhutan
    • Fauna of Bhutan
      • Birds of Bhutan
      • Mammals of Bhutan

Natural geographic features of Bhutan

  • Glaciers of Bhutan
  • Lakes of Bhutan
  • Mountains of Bhutan
  • Rivers of Bhutan
  • Valleys of Bhutan
  • World Heritage Sites in Bhutan: None

Regions of Bhutan

Ecoregions of Bhutan

List of ecoregions in Bhutan

Administrative divisions of Bhutan

Administrative divisions of Bhutan

  • Dzongkhags (districts) of Bhutan
    • Dungkhags (sub-districts) of Bhutan
      • Gewogs (village blocks) of Bhutan
        • Thromdes (municipalities) of Bhutan
        • Chiwogs (electoral constituencies) of Bhutan
          • Villages of Bhutan
Districts of Bhutan

Districts of Bhutan

No. District Former spelling Bhutanese Romanization used by the Dzongkha Development Commission
1. Bumthang བུམ་ཐང་ Bºumtha
2. Chukha Chhukha ཆུ་ཁ་ Chukha
3. Dagana དར་དཀར་ནང་ Dºagana
4. Gasa མགར་ས་ Gâsa
5. Haa ཧད་ / ཧཱ་
6. Lhuntse Lhuntshi ལྷུན་རྩེ་ Lhüntsi
7. Mongar མོང་སྒར་ Mongga
8. Paro སྤ་གྲོ་ Paro
9. Pemagatshel Pemagatsel པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་ Pemagatshä
10. Punakha སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ Punakha
11. Samdrup Jongkhar བསཾ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་ Samdru Jongkha
12. Samtse Samchi བསམ་རྩེ་ Samtsi
13. Sarpang གསར་སྦང་ Sarbang
14. Thimphu ཐིམ་ཕུག་ Thimphu
15. Trashigang Tashigang བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་ Trashigang
16. Trashiyangste བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ Trashi'yangste
17. Trongsa Tongsa ཀྲོང་གསར་ Trongsa
18. Tsirang Chirang རྩི་རང་ Tsirang
19. Wangdue Phodrang Wangdi Phodrang དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ 'Wangdi Phodrºa
20. Zhemgang Shemgang གཞལ་སྒང་ Zhºämgang
Gewogs (village blocks) of Bhutan

Gewogs of Bhutan

Municipalities of Bhutan

Thromde

  • Capital of Bhutan: Thimphu
  • Cities of Bhutan
  • Cities, towns, and villages of Bhutan

Demography of Bhutan

Demographics of Bhutan

Government and politics of Bhutan

Politics of Bhutan

  • Form of government: constitutional monarchy
  • Capital of Bhutan: Thimphu
  • Elections
    • National Council, 2007–08
    • General election, 2008
    • Local elections, 2011 (2008)
  • Political parties in Bhutan
  • Taxation in Bhutan

Branches of government

Government of Bhutan

Executive branch of the government of Bhutan

  • Ministry of Agriculture
  • Ministry of Economic Affairs
  • Ministry of Education
  • Ministry of Finance
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Ministry of Health
  • Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs
  • Ministry Information and Communications
  • Ministry Labour and Human Resources
  • Ministry Works and Human Settlement


Legislative branch of the government of Bhutan

  • Parliament of Bhutan (bicameral)
    • Upper house: National Council of Bhutan
    • Lower house: National Assembly of Bhutan

Judicial branch of the government of Bhutan

Judicial system of Bhutan

  • Royal Court of Justice
    • Supreme Court of Bhutan
    • High Court of Bhutan
    • Dzongkhag Court
    • Dungkhag Court

Foreign relations of Bhutan

Foreign relations of Bhutan

  • Diplomatic missions in Bhutan
  • Diplomatic missions of Bhutan

Bhutanese refugees

  • Bhutanese refugees
    • Beldangi refugee camps
    • Goldhap refugee camp
    • Khudunabari refugee camp
    • Sanischare refugee camp
    • Timai refugee camp

International organization membership

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

Law and order in Bhutan

Law of Bhutan

  • Bhutanese legislation
    • Constitution of Bhutan
    • Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1958
    • Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1985
    • Local Government Act of Bhutan 2009
    • Tobacco Control Act of Bhutan 2010
  • Human rights in Bhutan
    • Capital punishment in Bhutan
    • Freedom of religion in Bhutan
    • LGBT rights in Bhutan
  • Law enforcement in Bhutan
    • Royal Bhutan Police
  • Crime in Bhutan
  • Tsa Yig (historical legal code)

Military of Bhutan

Military of Bhutan

  • Command
  • Forces
    • Army of Bhutan
    • Navy of Bhutan: None
    • Air Force of Bhutan
  • Military history of Bhutan

Local government in Bhutan

History of Bhutan

History of Bhutan

  • Timeline of the history of Bhutan

Historical events

  • Bhutan War (Duar War)
  • Slavery in Bhutan
  • Treaty of Punakha

Historical families and figures

  • Dorji family
    • Ugyen Dorji
    • Jigme Palden Dorji
  • House of Wangchuck
    • Jigme Namgyal
    • Ugyen Wangchuck

Historical government

  • Dzongpen
  • Provinces of Bhutan
  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
  • Penlop
    • Penlop of Trongsa

Ancient Kingdoms

  • Bumthang Kingdom

Culture of Bhutan

Culture of Bhutan

  • Architecture of Bhutan
  • Cuisine of Bhutan
  • Ethnic groups in Bhutan
  • Media in Bhutan
  • National symbols of Bhutan
    • Coat of arms of Bhutan
    • Flag of Bhutan
    • National anthem of Bhutan
  • Prostitution in Bhutan
  • Public holidays in Bhutan
    • Tsechus
  • Religion in Bhutan
    • Buddhism in Bhutan
    • Christianity in Bhutan
    • Hinduism in Bhutan
    • Islam in Bhutan
  • World Heritage Sites in Bhutan: None

Art in Bhutan

  • Art in Bhutan
  • Cinema of Bhutan
  • Music of Bhutan
  • Television in Bhutan

Languages in Bhutan

Languages of Bhutan

Languages of Bhutan.svg
Dzongkha
Bumthang
Kurtöp
Dzala
Khampa Tibetan
Lakha
Nyenkha
'Olekha (Mönpa)
Brokkat
Chocangacakha
Chali
Dakpa
Brokpa
Lepcha
Lhokpu
Kheng
Gongduk
Tshangla
(Sharchopkha)
Languages of Bhutan.svg
Languages of Bhutan
  • Tibeto-Burman languages
    • Bodish languages
      • Tibetan languages (South Bodish, Central Bodish, West Bodish)
        • Dzongkha
        • Brokkat language
        • Brokpa language
        • Chocangacakha
        • Khams Tibetan language
        • Lakha
      • East Bodish languages
        • Bumthang language
        • Chali language
        • Dakpa language
        • Dzala language
        • Kheng language
        • Kurtöp language (Zhâke / Kurtoep-kha)
        • 'Olekha (Mönpa)
        • Nyenkha
      • Gongduk
      • Gurung
      • Kiranti (including Camling and Limbu)
      • Lepcha
      • Lhokpu
      • Nepal Bhasa
      • Tamang
      • Tshangla language(Sharchop-kha)
  • Indo-Aryan languages

Sports in Bhutan

Sports in Bhutan

  • Football in Bhutan
    • Bhutan national football team
  • Cricket in Bhutan
    • Bhutan national cricket team
  • Bhutan at the Olympics

Economy and infrastructure of Bhutan

Economy of Bhutan

  • Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 162nd (one hundred and sixty second)
  • Agriculture in Bhutan
  • Banking in Bhutan
  • Communications in Bhutan
    • Internet in Bhutan
  • Companies of Bhutan
  • Energy in Bhutan
  • Health care in Bhutan
  • Mining in Bhutan
  • Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan
  • Tourism in Bhutan
  • Transport in Bhutan
    • Airports in Bhutan
    • Rail transport in Bhutan
    • Roads in Bhutan
      • Lateral Road

Education in Bhutan

Education in Bhutan

Health in Bhutan

Health in Bhutan

See also

Bhutan

Sources

References

External links