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Bhutan

Capital: Thimphu

  • Bhutan covers about 38,395 square km, and about 98.8 percent of its land is mountainous. Forest covered around 71 percent of it in 2020.
  • Gangkhar Puensum, at 7,570 m, is Bhutan's highest peak and is often described as the highest unclimbed mountain in the world.
  • Paro Taktsang sits about 3,120 m above sea level and was built in 1692 around a cave linked to Guru Rinpoche's meditation.
  • Bhutan's climate changes with altitude. Its seasons are summer, monsoon, autumn, winter and spring, and the west gets heavier monsoon rain.

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