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The ancient capital city of Punakha was replaced by Thimphu as capital in 1955, and in 1961 Thimphu was declared as the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan by the 3rd Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. The city extends in a north–south direction on the west bank of the valley formed by the Wang Chhu, which flows out into India as the Raidāk River.
The capital and largest city is Thimphu, with close to 15% of the population. Bhutan and neighbouring Tibet experienced the spread of Buddhism, which originated in the Indian subcontinent during the lifetime of the Buddha. In the first millennium, the Vajrayana school of Buddhism spread to Bhutan from the southern Pala Empire of Bengal.
Thimphu District (Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Thim-phu rdzong-khag) is a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. Thimphu is also the capital of Bhutan and the largest city in the whole kingdom.
List of cities in Bhutan. 40 languages. Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ ... Map of Bhutan Thimphu. This is a list of cities and towns in Bhutan. List. Chhukha; Daga; Damphu ...
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.
Map of Bhutan. This is a list of airports in Bhutan, sorted by location.. Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by Tibet.
An enlargeable topographic map of Bhutan. Geography of Bhutan. Bhutan is: a landlocked country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Asia. South Asia. Indian subcontinent; Time zone: Bhutan Time ; Extreme points of Bhutan. High: Gangkhar Puensum 7,570 m (24,836 ft) Low: Drangme Chhu 97 m (318 ft) Land boundaries: 1,075 km
Punakha (Dzongkha: སྤུ་ན་ཁ་) is the administrative centre of Punakha dzongkhag, one of the 20 districts of Bhutan. Punakha was the capital of Bhutan and the seat of government until 1955, when the capital was moved to Thimphu. It is about 72 km away from Thimphu, and it takes about 3 hours by car from the capital.