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Transnational_issues of Bhutan

Disputes - international:over 100,000 Bhutanese Lhotshampas (Hindus) have been confined in seven UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees camps since 1990; Bhutan cooperates with India to expel Indian Nagaland separatists; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a boundary alignment to resolve substantial cartographic discrepancies, the largest of which lies in Bhutan's northwest

Bhutan Quickstats

  • Population: 2,327,849
  • Area: 47,000 sq km
  • Density: 45 /km² (149th)
  • GDP (total): $3.007 billion (160th)
  • GDP (per capita): $1,400 (117th)
  • Literacy: 47%

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  • Currency: Ngultrum (BTN)
  • Dial code: +975

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