Bhutan

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Quick Facts Kingdom of Bhutan འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ (Dzongkha) Druk Gyal Khap, Ntsindza-doroba ...
Kingdom of Bhutan
འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ (Dzongkha)
Druk Gyal Khap
Flag of Bhutan
Flag
Emblem of Bhutan
Emblem
Anthem: Druk tsendhen
The Thunder Dragon Kingdom
A map of the world, centred on South Asia, highlighting Bhutan
A map of east-central Asia, highlighting Bhutan
Ntsindza-doroba Thimphu
27°28.0′N 89°38.5′E
Tindzimi-Ximfumo Dzongkha
Religion Buddhism
Hinduism
Demonym Bhutanese
Government Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
 King
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
 Prime Minister
Tshering Tobgay
Legislature Parliament
 Upper house
National Council
 Lower house
National Assembly
Formation
 Unification of Bhutan
1616–1634
 House of Wangchuck
17 December 1907
 Indo-Bhutan Treaty
8 August 1949
 UN membership
21 September 1971
  Democratic Constitutional monarchy
18 July 2008
Area
 Total
38,394 km2 (14,824 sq mi)[1][2] (133rd)
 Water (%)
1.1
Population
 2016 estimate
797,765[3] (165th)
 2005a census
634,982[4]
 Density
19.3/km2 (50.0/sq mi) (196th)
GDP (PPP) 2018 estimate
 Total
$8.010 billion[5]
 Per capita

$9,805[5] (115th)

   
GDP (nominal) 2018 estimate
 Total
$2.610 billion[5]
 Per capita
$3,197[5] (130th)
Gini (2012) 38.7[6]
medium
HDI (2015)  0.607[7]
medium · 132nd
Currency Ngultrum (BTN)
Time zone BTT (UTC+6)
 Summer (DST)
not observed (UTC+6)
Drives on the left
Calling code +975
ISO 3166 code BT
Internet TLD .bt
  1. The population of Bhutan had been estimated based on the reported figure of about 1 million in the 1970s when the country had joined the United Nations and precise statistics were lacking.[8] Thus, using the annual increase rate of 2–3%, the most population estimates were around 2 million in the year 2000. A national census was carried out in 2005 and it turned out that the population was 672,425. Consequently, United Nations Population Division reduced its estimation of the country's population in the 2006 revision[9] for the whole period from 1950 to 2050.
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