- Total Area 38,394 square kilometers
- Geography Landlocked between China in the north and India in the south.
- Altitude 100m above sea level in the South to over 7,500 m. above sea leve in the North.
- Population 646,851 (2006)
- Language Bhutan’s official language is Dzongkha while English is widely spoken
- Religion Mahayana Buddhism in its Tantric form
- Capital Thimphu
- Political System Democratic Constitutional Monarchy
- Time 6 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Currency Ngultrum (at par with Indian rupee) 1US$ = Nu.38.75 (Jan, 2008)
- Terrain It can be divided into three major parts:
- Geographic regions from North to South; the high Himalayas of North, the hills and valleys of the central and the foothills and plains of the South.
- Forest coverage 72.5% of the land area
- Cultivated area 7.8% of total land
- Altitude 100 m above sea level in the south to over 7,500 m above sea level in the north
- Longitude 88 45’ – 92 10’ East
- Latitude 26 45’ – 28 15’ North
- Life expectancy 66 yrs
- Local time 6 hrs ahead of GMT and half an hour ahead of Indian Standard Time (IST)