Bhutan

Bhutan, offeecally the Kinrick o Bhutan (pronoonced ; Dzongkha: ; Wylie:  'drug yul; Tibetan pinyin: ), is a sma landlocked kintra in Sooth Asie, locatit at the eastren end o the Himalayas an bordered tae the sooth, east an wast bi the Republic o Indie an tae the north bi the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae. Bhutan is separatit frae the nearbi state o Nepal tae the wast bi the Indian state o Sikkim, an frae Bangladesh tae the sooth bi Wast Bengal.

Till the early 17t century, Bhutan existit as a patchwirk o minor warrin fiefdoms, when the aurie wis unified bi the Tibetan lama an military leader Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal who fled releegious persecution in Tibet an cultivatit a separate Bhutanese identity. In the early 20t century, Bhutan came unner the influence o the Breetish Empire, an then upon Indian independence, that o Indie. In 2006, Business Week magazine ratit Bhutan the happiest kintra in Asie an the aicht-happiest in the warld based on a global survey. The caipital ceety o Bhutan is Thimphu. Its offeecial leid is Dzongkha.

 Name 
"Bhutan" is a kachari wird, as at ane time Bhutan wis in the aurie o Tibet. "A place o Bod" in Tibetan, Di-Bod meant a place o frozen water, it later became  DiBodo-Tibodo-Tibet. Likewise, Bodo hathan-Bhuthan-Bhutan is a possible oreegin o the name:  frae Bod, a name o place an Hathan-a kynd o place, in this way Bod Hathan-Bhuthan-Bhutan. In anither theory o Sanskritisation, Bhoṭa-anta (भोट-अन्त) means "At the end o Tibet", as Bhutan is immediately tae Tibet's sooth.

Historically Bhutan wis kent bi mony names, such as Lho Mon (soothren land o daurkness), Lho Tsendenjong (soothren land o the Tsenden cypress), Lhomen Khazhi (soothren land o fower approaches) an  Lho Men Jong (soothren land o medicinal herbs).

 Destricts 

Bhutan is dividit intae fower dzongdey (admeenistrative zones). Each dzongdey is further dividit intae dzongkhag (destricts). There are twintie dzongkhag in Bhutan. Large dzongkhags are further dividit intae subdistricts kent as dungkhag. At the basic level, groups o veelages form a constituency cried gewog (blocks) an are admeenistered bi a gup, who is electit bi the fowk.
<li> Bumthang
<li> Chukha (auld spellin: Chhukha)
<li> Dagana
<li> Gasa
<li> Haa
<li> Lhuntse
<li> Mongar
<li> Paro
<li> Pemagatshel (Pemagatsel)
<li> Punakha<li> Samdrup Jongkhar
<li> Samtse (Samchi)
<li> Sarpang (auld spellin: Sarbhang)
<li> Thimphu
<li> Trashigang (Tashigang)
<li> Trashiyangtse
<li> Trongsa (Tongsa)
<li> Tsirang (Chirang)
<li> Wangdue Phodrang (Wangdi Phodrang)
<li> Zhemgang (Shemgang)

 References 

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