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Topographic map of Bhutan. Bhutan is a sovereign country at the crossroads of East Asia and South Asia, located towards the eastern extreme of the Himalayas mountain range. It is fairly evenly sandwiched between the sovereign territory of two nations: first, the People's Republic of China (PRC) on the north and northwest.
The Bhutan Cultural Atlas (འབྲུག་གི་ལམ་སྲོལ་ས་ཁྲ།) is a web based cultural mapping initiative sponsored by the Royal University of Bhutan - College of Language and Culture Studies, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Oriental Cultural Heritage Sites Protection Alliance (OCHSPA, France), aimed at helping to preserve Bhutan's intangible and ...
Forts in Bhutan (1 C) This page was last edited on 6 August 2022, at 19:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Located in south-central Bhutan, its southern border extends to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of India, the Manas National Park. In the north it borders on the Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park. In 1966, Royal Manas was designated as a Wildlife Sanctuary, making it the oldest nature reserve in Bhutan.
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Kurjey Lhakhang, the final resting place of the remains of the first three Kings of Bhutan. Jakar Dzong, adjacent to the main town of Jakar. Jambay Lhakhang, one of the two most ancient temples of Bhutan, built in the 7th century by Songtsän Gampo, founder of the Tibetan Empire. Tamzhing Monastery, the most important Nyingma institution in the ...
Bhutan and Maldives, which are also located within the region, do not have any World Heritage Sites. [1] [2] The first sites recognised as World Heritage Sites in South Asia were the Sagarmatha National Park and the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, inscribed in 1979. [3] Nepal has currently a total of four sites.