ocr: BHUTAN 450 Official Name: Ringdom of Bhutan Capital: Thimphu Population: 1.6 million Currency: Ngultrum Official language: Dzongkha PERCHED IN' THE HIMALAYAS between India and China, Bhutan is 70% forested. s0" The land rises from the low, tropical southern C H strip, through the fertile central valleys, to the high Himalayas inhabited' by semi-nomadic yak herders. Af formal Buddhis st state Kula. Kangri where poweris shared by the king 25 1554m and government, Bhutan began modernizing in the 1960s, but o M L has chosen to do so gradually and: remains THIMPHU largely closed to the outside worl ...
