Bhutan

SHORT INFORMATION

Administrative divisions of Bhutan

Bhutan is divided into twenty dzongkhags (districts), administered by a body called the Dzongkhag Tshogdu.

SHORT INFORMATION

Geography of Bhutan

Bhutan is a landlocked South Asian country. Covering an area of around 46,500 square kilometers and has population of 650,000 with seventy five percent of the population living on cultivation and livestock rearing.

SHORT INFORMATION

Bhutan, The People of Bhutan

Foreign sources placed Bhutan’s population at 2,094,176 in 2002. However, the official 1990 estimate by the Bhutanese government gave the country’s population as about 600,000.