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    The valleys of Bhutan are carved into the Himalaya by Bhutan's rivers, fed by glacial melt and monsoon rains. As Bhutan is landlocked in the mountainous...
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    Empire of Bengal. During the 16th century, Ngawang Namgyal unified the valleys of Bhutan into a single state. Namgyal defeated three Tibetan invasions, subjugated...
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    high-frequency landslides. The valleys of Bhutan are linked by a series of passes ("La" in Dzongkha). Between the Haa Valley and Paro Valley is the Chele La (3,780...
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    development of transport in Bhutan, including a national highway system, travel from one valley to the next remains difficult. Western valleys are bound to the east...
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    settled in the south-draining valleys of Bhutan. Both Tibetans and Bhutanese revere the tantric guru, Padmasambhava, the founder of Himalayan Buddhism in the...
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    wetter eastern valleys of Bhutan tend to be steep, narrow ravines, with settlements dug directly into mountainsides. Walls are more often made of stone in these...
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    Paro (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་) is a town and seat of Paro District, in the Paro Valley of Bhutan. It is a historic town with many sacred sites and historical...
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    Thimphu (redirect from Capital of Bhutan)
    western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's dzongkhags, the Thimphu District. The ancient capital city of Punakha was replaced...
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    U-shaped valley in central Bhutan. The valley houses one of the impressive ancient Buddhist monasteries in Bhutan known as Gangteng Monastery of the Nyingma...
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    The prime 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...
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  • upgrade 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) of roads and to extend the road network through Bhutan's five major river valleys by 1992. Driveable roads were not...
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    Bumthang Valley is the main inhabited valley in the Bumthang district of Bhutan. Bumthang is one of the most beautiful and sacred valleys in Bhutan. The main...
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    Paro Taktsang (category Drukpa Kagyu monasteries and temples in Bhutan)
    Vajrayana Himalayan Buddhist site located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley in Bhutan. It is one of thirteen Tiger's Nest caves in historical Tibet in...
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    conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. The Druk Gyalpo (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་; lit. 'Dragon King') is the head of state of the Kingdom of Bhutan. In the Dzongkha...
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    Paro District (redirect from Paro valley)
    a district (dzongkhag), valley, river and town (population 20,000) in Bhutan. It is one of the most historic valleys in Bhutan. Both trade goods and invading...
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    fertile valleys, Buddhism matured and became a unifying element. It was Buddhist literature and chronicles that began the recorded history of Bhutan. In 810AD...
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    The following is a partial list of valleys in India, listed alphabetically. Many of these valleys in India are named after the river that flows through...
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    Kheng Gongduk Tshangla (Sharchop) There are two dozen languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except for Nepali, which is...
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    Tourism in Bhutan began in 1974, when the Government of Bhutan, in an effort to raise revenue and to promote Bhutanese unique culture and traditions to...
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  • Immigration to Bhutan has an extensive history and has become one of the country's most contentious social, political, and legal issues. Since the twentieth...
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  • The 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...
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  • Bumdeling Valley is one of the valleys located in Bumdeling Gewog, Trashiyangtse District, Bhutan. It is a part of the Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary that...
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    The Kingdom of Bhutan is divided into 20 districts (Dzongkha: dzongkhags). Bhutan is located between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India on...
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    Black-necked cranes in Bhutan (Grus nigricollis) are winter visitors during late October to mid February to the Phobjikha Valley as well as Ladakh, India...
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    is a Thromde or town, and the seat of Haa District in Bhutan. Haa is situated in Haa Valley in the west of the Bhutan bordering Sikkim. The major economic...
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  • Ngalop people (category Ethnic groups in Bhutan)
    the Kheng people and speakers of Bumthang language. The Ngalop are concentrated in the western and central valleys of Bhutan, whose total population in 2010...
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  • Tang Valley is one of the four valleys of Bumthang District, Bhutan. It is located 11 km away from Jakar, the administrative center of Bumthang District...
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    national emblem of Bhutan (Dzongkha: རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལས་རྟགས་; Wylie: rgyal-yongs las-rtags) maintains several elements of the flag of Bhutan, with slightly...
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    of Tibetan characters. The Royal Bhutan Army (RBA; Dzongkha: བསྟན་སྲུང་དམག་སྡེ་, romanized: bStan-srung dmag-sde) is a branch of the armed forces of the...
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    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,...
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