🇧🇹 Bhutan - Country

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Bhutan
Druk Yul · Kingdom of Bhutan
Name Origin
Land of the Thunder Dragon
“Druk Yul” Means “Land of the Thunder Dragon”
Symbols
🐉 Thunder Dragon Flag · Himalayan Kingdom · Vajra Heritage
Codes
BT · BTN
ISO 3166-1 · IOC Country Code
TLD
.bt
Internet Country Code Top-Level Domain
Telephone Code
+975
International Calling Code
Currency
BTN · Nu. · Bhutanese Ngultrum
Official Language
Dzongkha Uses Tibetan Script · Sharchop, Nepali, Kheng & Bumthangkha Minority Languages
Religion
Buddhism
Vajrayana Buddhism State Tradition · Hindu Minority
Capital
Largest City
Government
Unitary Constitutional Kingdom
Region
Eastern Himalayas · Himalayan Kingdoms · Buddhist Himalaya
Districts
20 Districts
Dzongkhags · Thimphu, Paro, Punakha, Bumthang & Trashigang Districts · Further Divided Into Gewogs, Municipalities, Towns, Villages & Mountain Communities
Time Zone
Bhutan Time (UTC+6)
Single National Time Zone
King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
King (Druk Gyalpo)
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Since December 14, 2006 · Constitutional Monarch & Head of State of Bhutan
Queen Jetsun Pema
Queen (Druk Gyaltsuen)
Jetsun Pema
Queen Consort of Bhutan · Cultural & Humanitarian Figure
Crown Prince Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck
Crown Prince (Gyalsey)
Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck
Born February 5, 2016 · Heir Apparent to the Bhutanese Throne
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay
Prime Minister
Tshering Tobgay
Since January 28, 2024 · People's Democratic Party · Head of Government
Je Khenpo of Bhutan
Je Khenpo
Chief Abbot of Bhutan
Head of Religion · Spiritual Leader of the Central Monastic Body
Area
14,824 sq mi
38,394 km² · #136 of 197 Countries by Area
Population
780,000
#165 of 197 Countries by Population
Population Density
53/sq mi
20/km² · #170 of 197 Countries by Density
Demonym
Bhutanese
Bhutanese Unification
1616
Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal Unified Bhutan
Monarchy Established
December 17, 1907
Wangchuck Hereditary Monarchy Established
Constitution
July 18, 2008
Democratic Constitutional Monarchy Established
Bhutan Location
27.5142° N, 90.4336° E
South Asia · Eastern Himalayas · Himalayan Buddhist Kingdom
Asia Globe
Continent
Thimphu, Bhutan WEATHER
Districts

Bhutan is a mountainous country in the eastern Himalayas of South Asia, characterized by high alpine peaks, deep river valleys, and dense forests across its rugged terrain.

📍 Bhutan is a small, landlocked country located in South Asia, nestled in the eastern Himalayas between two major Asian powers. It lies between China (Tibet region) to the north and India to the south, east, and west.
Bhutan’s terrain is almost entirely mountainous, dominated by the Himalayan mountain range, with some of the highest peaks in the world along its northern border. The country features deep valleys, fast-flowing rivers, and dense forests that support rich biodiversity. Elevation changes sharply from subtropical plains in the south to alpine conditions in the north. Bhutan’s isolated location has helped preserve its unique culture and environment, while its position in the Himalayas has shaped its development, transportation, and way of life.
Capital
Thimphu, Thimphu Dzongkhag
(ཐིམ་ཕུ་, ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥 ~115,000
Largest Places
Thimphu, Thimphu Dzongkhag
(ཐིམ་ཕུ་, ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~115,000
Phuentsholing, Chukha Dzongkhag
(ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་, ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~30,000
Paro, Paro Dzongkhag
(སྤ་རོ་, སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~15,000
Punakha, Punakha Dzongkhag
(སྤུ་ན་ཁ་, སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~10,000
Wangdue Phodrang, Wangdue Phodrang Dzongkhag
(དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་, དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~9,000
Samtse, Samtse Dzongkhag
(སམ་ཚེ་, སམ་ཚེ་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~8,000
Gelephu, Sarpang Dzongkhag
(དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུ་, སར་ཕང་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~7,500
Trashigang, Trashigang Dzongkhag
(བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་, བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~7,000
Mongar, Mongar Dzongkhag
(མོང་སྒར་, མོང་སྒར་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~6,500
Samdrup Jongkhar, Samdrup Jongkhar Dzongkhag
(སམ་གྲུབ་ཇོང་ཁར་, སམ་གྲུབ་ཇོང་ཁར་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~6,000
Jakar, Bumthang Dzongkhag
(བྱ་ཀར་, བུམ་ཐང་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~5,500
Damphu, Tsirang Dzongkhag
(དམ་ཕུ་, ཙི་རང་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~5,000
Trongsa, Trongsa Dzongkhag
(ཀྲོང་གསར་, ཀྲོང་གསར་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~4,500
Lhuentse, Lhuentse Dzongkhag
(ལྷུན་རྩེ་, ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~4,000
Zhemgang, Zhemgang Dzongkhag
(གཞམས་སྒང་, གཞམས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~3,500
Gasa, Gasa Dzongkhag
(དགའ་ས་, དགའ་ས་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~3,000
Pemagatshel, Pemagatshel Dzongkhag
(པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་, པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~3,000
Haa, Haa Dzongkhag
(ཧ་རྫོང་, ཧ་རྫོང་ཁག)
👥~2,500
Road System (Himalayan Mountain Kingdom Infrastructure)
Drives On: Left
Bhutan follows left-hand traffic regulations.
Electrical System (South Asian Himalayan Standards)
Primary Plug Types: Type C, Type D & Type G
Bhutan uses a mix of South Asian and British-style electrical systems.

What is the Internet TLD for Bhutan?

A top-level domain (TLD) is the last section of a website address that appears after the final dot.

Country-code top-level domains are assigned to countries worldwide.

Examples:

.in = India .cn = China .np = Nepal

Bhutan uses:

.bt

What is the ISO Code for Bhutan?

ISO country codes come from the international standard ISO 3166 created by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Bhutan is a landlocked Himalayan kingdom in South Asia.

ISO 3166-1 codes are the two-letter country codes such as BT. These are called Level-1 ISO codes.

Bhutan is assigned:

BT

Official ISO country name:

Kingdom of Bhutan

Subdivision codes do not have flag emojis.
ISO-2 Code: BT
ISO-3 Code: BTN
ISO Numeric Code: 064
BT Bhutan Flag Bhutan (ISO 3166-1)
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Unicode Flag Code: U+1F1E7 U+1F1F9
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Bhutan Flag
🇧🇹 "འབྲུག་ཙན་དན་" – (Dzongkha) / "The Thunder Dragon Kingdom"
• Lyrics written by Dasho Gyaldun Thinley
• Music composed by Aku Tongmi
• Adopted as Bhutan’s national anthem in 1953
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Guiding Philosophy and de Facto National Motto:

"རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དགའ་སྐྱིད་བསྡོམས་འབོར་"

(Translated from Dzongkha: "Gross National Happiness (GNH)")

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