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 A Bhutanese passport is a document which authorises and facilitates travel and other activities in Bhutan or by Bhutanese citizens. 

 In the Kingdom of Bumthang, which constitutes a part of modern day Bhutan, feudal passbooks or 'dzeng' (Dzongkha: ཛེང) were issued to court messengers in order to travel from kingdom to kingdom.http://www.nab.gov.bt/downloads/82NA%20resolution.doc Diplomacy and mediating were crucially important measures in pre-modern Bhutan chiefdoms.http://www.dzongkha.gov.bt/publications/PDF-publications/Drangtsi_Bumpa.pdf 

 Foreign travel passports are issued to citizens of Bhutan for international travel.  New Bhutanese passports are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.http://www.nab.gov.bt/downloads/82NA%20resolution.doc 

 ==Languages== 
 The passport contains text in  English and Dzongkha (Tibetan script). 

 ==Types of passport== 
 * Ordinary passport (red), Shinthron passport (Dzongkha: ་དགེ་འདུན་) 
 * Official passport (green), Pawchang passport (Dzongkha: ་དབྱངས།་) 
 * Diplomatic passport (blue), Denzhen passport (Dzongkha: ཞག་དང་རྣ) 

  man holding his Bhutanese passport in a refugee camp for Bhutanese.]] 

 ==See also== 
 *Passport 
 *Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bhutan) 
 *Kingdom of Bhutan 
 *Foreign relations of Bhutan 
 *Politics of Bhutan 
 *List of passports 

 ==References== 

  

  

  

  
 Category:Passports by country 
 Passport