Coordinates: 27°25′01″N 90°26′06″E / 27.417°N
90.435°E / 27.417; 90.435Bhutan (/buË ËˆtÉ'Ë n/ (listen);
Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, romanized: Druk Yul,
[ʈuk̚˩.yË Ë©]), officially known as the Kingdom of Bhutan
(Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རà¾'ྱལ་འབ་, romanized: Druk
Gyal Khap), is a landlocked country in the Eastern Himalayas in South
Asia. It is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the
north, the Chumbi Valley of Tibet and the Indian states of Sikkim and
West Bengal in the west, and the Indian states of Assam, West Bengal,
and Arunachal Pradesh in the south and east. Bhutan is geopolitically
in South Asia and is the region's second-least-populous nation after
the Maldives. Thimphu is its capital and the largest city, while
Phuntsholing is its financial center.Bhutan's de-facto independence
has endured for centuries, although it has historically been part of
India's sphere of influence as a protected state. It has never been
colonized in its history. Situated on the ancient Silk Road between
Tibet, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, the Bhutanese state
developed a distinct national identity based on Buddhism. Headed by a
spiritual leader known as the Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the territory
comprised many fiefdoms and was governed as a Buddhist theocracy.
Following a civil war in the 19th century, the House of Wangchuck
reunited the country and established relations with the British
Empire. After the end of the British Raj, Bhutan fostered a strategic
partnership with India during the rise of Chinese communism; it
currently has a disputed border with China. In the early 1990s, the
government forcefully deported (members of human rights organizations
such as Human Rights Watch describe it as ethnic cleansing) much of
the country's Nepali-speaking Lhotshampa minority in southern Bhutan;
this sparked a refugee crisis in nearby Jhapa, Nepal. In 2008, Bhutan
transitioned from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy
and held the first election to the National Assembly of Bhutan. The
National Assembly is part of the bicameral parliament of the Bhutanese
democracy.
90.435°E / 27.417; 90.435Bhutan (/buË ËˆtÉ'Ë n/ (listen);
Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, romanized: Druk Yul,
[ʈuk̚˩.yË Ë©]), officially known as the Kingdom of Bhutan
(Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རà¾'ྱལ་འབ་, romanized: Druk
Gyal Khap), is a landlocked country in the Eastern Himalayas in South
Asia. It is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the
north, the Chumbi Valley of Tibet and the Indian states of Sikkim and
West Bengal in the west, and the Indian states of Assam, West Bengal,
and Arunachal Pradesh in the south and east. Bhutan is geopolitically
in South Asia and is the region's second-least-populous nation after
the Maldives. Thimphu is its capital and the largest city, while
Phuntsholing is its financial center.Bhutan's de-facto independence
has endured for centuries, although it has historically been part of
India's sphere of influence as a protected state. It has never been
colonized in its history. Situated on the ancient Silk Road between
Tibet, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, the Bhutanese state
developed a distinct national identity based on Buddhism. Headed by a
spiritual leader known as the Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the territory
comprised many fiefdoms and was governed as a Buddhist theocracy.
Following a civil war in the 19th century, the House of Wangchuck
reunited the country and established relations with the British
Empire. After the end of the British Raj, Bhutan fostered a strategic
partnership with India during the rise of Chinese communism; it
currently has a disputed border with China. In the early 1990s, the
government forcefully deported (members of human rights organizations
such as Human Rights Watch describe it as ethnic cleansing) much of
the country's Nepali-speaking Lhotshampa minority in southern Bhutan;
this sparked a refugee crisis in nearby Jhapa, Nepal. In 2008, Bhutan
transitioned from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy
and held the first election to the National Assembly of Bhutan. The
National Assembly is part of the bicameral parliament of the Bhutanese
democracy.
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