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  2. Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword ...

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    The capital of Bhutan is Thimphu. This is the first occurrence of our crossword-friend ASIA this month. We have seen ASIA in the puzzle 33 times so far this year.

  3. Thimphu - Wikipedia

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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 .

  4. Dechencholing Palace - Wikipedia

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    Dechencholing Palace (Dzongkha: བདེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་གླིང་, dechencholing) is located in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to the north of the Tashichho Dzong and 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of the city centre. [2] It was built in 1953 by the third king of Bhutan Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck.

  5. Thimphu District - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Bhutan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Punakha - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of cities in Bhutan - Wikipedia

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