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1943-DEC-01

BHUTAN  UNITED KINGDOM 
  
(Paro a + Punakha w + Thimbu s) - (London an + Westminster lr + Edinburgh s + Windsor r) -

Kingdom of BHUTAN
[Autonomous British Indian Protected State]

Flag or Logo since 1926-08-21
Kingdom of BHUTAN (en) + Druk Gyal-Khab : DRUK-YUL : འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ : འབྲུག་ཡུལ་ (dz) De facto Semi-Independent
Emblem or Symbol

King Jigme Wangchuk
(ruler of BHUTAN since 1926-08-21)
King George VI
(ruler of UNITED KINGDOM since 1936-12-11)
 
 
 
 
Capitals & administrative places: Paro a + Punakha w + Thimbu s
(Paro + Punakha + Thimphu)
a administrative, national or political capital (also ruler's residence)
r summer capital
w winter capital
Official & national languages: Dzongkha (dz) . English (en) .

Mainland:


BHUTAN Kingdom of BHUTAN  (Paro + Punakha + Thimbu)

9 Divisions:

BYAKAR Province of BYAKAR  (Byakar)Local: Province of BYAKAR (en) + BYA-KAR Penlop : བྱ་ཀར དཔོན་སློབ (dz)  (Byakar)
DUKYE Province of DUKYE  (Trashigang)Local: Province of DUKYE (en) + DRUGYEL Penlop : འབྲུག་རྒྱལ དཔོན་སློབ (dz)  (Tashigang)
HAS Province of HAS  (Ha)Local: Province of HA (en) + HAA Penlop : ཧས དཔོན་སློབ (dz)  (Ha)
PUNAKHA Province of PUNAKHA  (Punakha)Local: Province of PUNAKHA (en) + SPUNAKHA Penlop : སྤུ་ན་ཁ་དཔོན་སློབ (dz)  (Punakha)
RINPUNG Province of RINPUNG  (Paro)Local: Province of RINPUNG (en) + RINPUNG Penlop : ཪིན་སྤུངས་ དཔོན་སློབ (dz)  (Paro)
TAGANA Province of TAGANA  (Daga)Local: Province of DAGANA (en) + DAGANA Penlop : དར་དཀར དཔོན་སློབ (dz)  (Dagana)
THIMBU Province of THIMBU  (Thimbu)Local: Province of THIMPU (en) + THIMPHU Penlop : ཐིམ་ཕུ དཔོན་སློབ (dz)  (Thimphu)
TONGSA Province of TONGSA  (Tongsa)Local: Province of TONGSA (en) + KRONG-GSAR Penlop : ཀྲོང་གསར དཔོན་སློབ (dz)  (Tongsa)
WANGDUPOTRANG Province of WANGDUPOTRANG  (Wangdi Phodrang)Local: Province of WANGDUPOTRANG (en) + WANDI PHODR´A Penlop : དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ དཔོན་སློབ (dz)  (Wangdi Phodrang)





2 International Organisations or Groupings membership (selective)


MAHAYANA BUDDHISM Teaching of the Great Vehicle Buddhism : MAHAYANA BUDDHISM  (Nara + Kyoto)
VAJRAYANA BUDDHISM Teaching of the Tantric Tibetan Buddhism : VAJRARANA BUDDHISM  (Lhasa)

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