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Bhutan

Kingdom of Bhutan · འབྲུག་ཡུལ་
Asia · Southern Asia

0Population

38.39Kkm² of land

$3.32KGDP / person

ThimphuCapital

ISO codes: BT · BTN
Density: 20 /km²
Languages: Dzongkha
Currencies: Bhutanese ngultrum (BTN), Indian rupee (INR)
Dial code: +975
Internet domain: .bt
Time zones: 1
Coastline: Landlocked
Map centre: 27.5370° N, 90.0400° E
Demonym: Bhutanese
UN region: Southern Asia
Economy: Least developed region
Income group: Lower middle income
Total GDP: $2.53B
Sovereignty: Independent · UN member
Borders: 2

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By the numbers

How Bhutan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.

Population

166th

of 242 · 0.01% of world population

Land area

136th

of 242 · 0.03% of world land

GDP per person

172nd

richest of 242 by output per person

Population density

190th

most crowded of 242

Ten facts about Bhutan

The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.

1

Measures Gross National Happiness alongside GDP, and is one of the only carbon-negative countries in the world.

2

Population is about 763,092 people, the 166th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 10,060 of everyone alive.

3

Covers 38,394 km², making it the 136th largest country here - about 4.2 times the size of Cyprus.

4

Population density is about 20 people per km².

5

The capital is Thimphu, at 27.47° N, 89.64° E, with a metropolitan population of about 98,676.

6

Shares land borders with 2 countries: China and India.

7

Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.

8

Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Thimphu.

9

The currency is the Bhutanese ngultrum (BTN, symbol Nu.).

10

The official language is Dzongkha.

Local time

Live, from PHP's IANA database.

Asia/Thimphu

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UTC+06:00

Cities

The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.

1 ★ Thimphu Thimphu 27.4730° N, 89.6390° E 98.68K

Land neighbours

2 countries share a border with Bhutan.