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Bhutan Telecom (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་བརྒྱུད་འཕྲིན) is a telecommunications and Internet service provider in the Kingdom of Bhutan. It is the sole fixed-line telephony provider in the country. It also operates the B-Mobile mobile service and the DrukNet Internet service.
The Bhutan Broadcasting Service first commenced television transmissions in June 1999, upon legalizing television, [2] one of the last countries in the world to do so. [ 1 ] Cable TV service offers dozens of Indian and other international channels (2012).
The national symbols of Bhutan include the national flag, national emblem, national anthem, and the mythical druk thunder featured in all three. Other distinctive symbols of Bhutan and its dominant Ngalop culture include Dzongkha, the national language; the Bhutanese monarchy; and the driglam namzha, a seventeenth-century code on dress, etiquette, and dzong architecture.
Thimphu (/ t ɪ m ˈ p uː /; Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུག [tʰim˥.pʰu˥]) is the capital and largest city of Bhutan.It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's dzongkhags, the Thimphu District.
Jakar (Dzongkha: བྱ་ཀར་, romanized: Bya-kar) [1] is a town in the central-eastern region of Bhutan. It is the district capital (dzongkhag thromde) [2] of Bumthang District and the location of Jakar Dzong, the regional dzong fortress. The name Jakar roughly translates as "white bird" in reference to its foundation myth, according to ...
View of Tashichho Dzong in Thimphu, the largest dzongkhag in Bhutan by population. The Kingdom of Bhutan is divided into 20 districts (Dzongkha: dzongkhags). Bhutan is located between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India on the eastern slopes of the Himalayas in South Asia. [1] Dzongkhags are the primary subdivisions of Bhutan.
One logo depicts a small heart surrounded by a larger heart, symbolizing a relationship between an pedophile and minor girl. Another logo resembles a butterfly and represents non-preferential ...
Chukha Dzongkhag covers 1,880 sq. km, [4] but unlike most other districts, Chukha, along with Samtse, contain no protected areas of Bhutan. Although much of southern Bhutan contained protected areas in the 1960s, park-level environmental protection became untenable. [5] [6]