TelecommunicationsinBhutan includes telephones, radio, television, and the Internet. Main lines: 27,900 lines in use, 179th in the world (2012). Mobile...
characters. Bhutan Telecom (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་བརྒྱུད་འཕྲིན) is a telecommunications and Internet service provider in the Kingdom of Bhutan. It is the sole...
Bhutan did not have modern telecommunications. The first radio broadcasts commenced in November 1973, when the National Youth Association of Bhutan (NYAB)...
Bhutan is a Buddhist country by constitution and Buddhism plays a vital role in the country. The official religion inBhutan is Buddhism, which is practiced...
Bhutan has diplomatic relations with 54 of 193 member states of the United Nations and the European Union. Bhutan's limited number of such relations,...
Transport inBhutan uses about 8,000 kilometres (5,000 mi) of roads and four airports, three of which are operational and interconnected. Paro Airport...
Royal Bhutan Army (RBA; Dzongkha: བསྟན་སྲུང་དམག་སྡེ་, romanized: bStan-srung dmag-sde) is a branch of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Bhutan responsible...
languages are also spoken along Bhutan's borders and among the primarily Nepali-speaking Lhotshampa community in South and East Bhutan. Chöke (or Classical Tibetan)...
Energy inBhutan has been a primary focus of development in the kingdom under its Five-Year Plans. In cooperation with India, Bhutan has undertaken several...
Bhutan has a low crime rate. Incidents of petty crime are occasionally reported in the country. Violent crime is very uncommon. Some cases of drug abuse...
threaten Bhutan's population and biodiversity. Land and water use have also become matters of environmental concern in both rural and urban settings. In addition...
minister of Bhutan (Lyonchhen) is the head of government of Bhutan. The prime minister is nominated by the party that wins the most seats in the National...
branches of the armed forces of Bhutan are the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA), Royal Bodyguards, and Royal Bhutan Police. Bhutan does not have an air force, nor...
Tourism inBhutan began in 1974, when the Government of Bhutan, in an effort to raise revenue and to promote Bhutanese unique culture and traditions to...
national flag of Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཡུལ་རྒྱལ་དར) is one of the national symbols of Bhutan. The flag features a Chinese dragon (druk in Dzongkha, the...
of Bhutan. In the Dzongkha language, Bhutan is known as Drukyul which translates as "The Land of the Thunder Dragon". Thus, while kings of Bhutan are...
Western-style education was introduced to Bhutan during the reign of Ugyen Wangchuck (1907–26). Until the 1950s, the only formal education available to...
War (or Anglo-Bhutanese War) was a war fought between British India and Bhutanin 1864 to 1865. It has been the only military conflict between the two states...
national emblem of Bhutan (Dzongkha: རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལས་རྟགས་; Wylie: rgyal-yongs las-rtags) maintains several elements of the flag of Bhutan, with slightly different...
The various mass media inBhutan have historically been government-controlled, although this has changed in recent years. The country has its own newspapers...
This is a list of cities and towns inBhutan. Chhukha Daga Damphu Gasa Gelephu Ha Jakar Lhuntshi Mongar Paro Pemagatsel Phuntsholing Punakha Samtse Samdrup...
Health inBhutan is one of the government's highest priorities in its scheme of development and modernization. Health and related issues are overseen by...
national symbols of Bhutan include the national flag, national emblem, national anthem, and the mythical druk thunder featured in all three. Other distinctive...
The Kingdom of Bhutan is divided into 20 districts (Dzongkha: dzongkhags). Bhutan is located between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India on...
Cradled in the folds of the Himalayas, Bhutan has relied on its geographical isolation to protect itself from outside cultural influences. A sparsely...
bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people inBhutan face legal challenges that are not faced by non-LGBT people. Bhutan does not provide any anti-discrimination...
of Bhutan are some of the most prominent natural geographic features of the kingdom. Located on the southern end of the Eastern Himalaya, Bhutan has...
northern Bhutan, the Sharchop of eastern Bhutan, the Lhotshampa concentrated in southern Bhutan, and Bhutanese tribal and aboriginal peoples living in villages...