Bhutan

Kingdom of Bhutan · འབྲུག་ཡུལ་

Bhutan (BT, BTN) is a country in Southern Asia, with Thimphu as its capital. The currency is the Bhutanese Ngultrum (BTN, BTN) and Indian Rupee (INR, ₹). The international dialling code is +975; mobile numbers are written like 17 12 34 56. The time zone is Asia/Thimphu. Official language: Dzongkha.

CurrencyBTN, INRBTN ₹
Dial code+975e.g. 17 12 34 56
Time zoneThimphuUTC+06:00
LanguageDzongkha
CapitalThimphu
Population884.5K38.4K km²

Overview

Official name
Kingdom of Bhutan
Native name
འབྲུག་ཡུལ་
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
BT
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
BTN
ISO 3166-1 numeric
064
IOC code
BHU
Demonym
Bhutanese
Capital
Thimphu
Region
Asia › Southern Asia
Status
Independent, UN member
Groups
  • Southern Asia
  • United Nations
Internet domain
.bt
Coordinates
27.5, 90.5
Area
38,394 km²
Population
884,546
GDP
$11B ($12.4K per person)
Literacy
52.8%
Landlocked
Yes

Currency

Bhutanese Ngultrum BTN

Symbol
BTN
Minor units
2 decimals
Example
Nu. ༡,༢༣༤.༥༠

Indian Rupee INR

Symbol
₹
Minor units
2 decimals
Example
₹༡,༢༣༤.༥༠

Languages

LanguageStatusShare of populationWriting
Dzongkha dzOfficial47% (415.7K)
Nepali ne17% (150.4K)
tsj tsj15% (132.7K)
English en11% (97.3K)
lep lep3.9% (34.5K)

Time zones

Time zoneLocal timeStandardDaylight savingName
Asia/ThimphuUTC+06:00noneBhutan Time

Phone numbers

Calling code
+975
Dial-out prefix
00
Trunk prefix
none
National number length
7–8 digits
Emergency number
110 pattern 11[023]

Number types

TypeNational formatInternational formatLayoutDigits
Fixed line2 345 678+975 2 345 678X XXX XXX7
Mobile17 12 34 56+975 17 12 34 56XX XX XX XX8
Show the 3 formatting rules
Digits patternLeading digitsFormatInternational
(\d{3})(\d{3})[2-7]$1 $2$1 $2
(\d)(\d{3})(\d{3})[2-6]|7[246]|8[2-4]$1 $2 $3$1 $2 $3
(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})1[67]|[78]$1 $2 $3 $4$1 $2 $3 $4

Address and postal code

Address layout

{Name}
{Organization}
{Street address}
{City} {Postal code}

No data.

Postal code

Pattern
\d{5}
Examples
11001 · 31101 · 35003

Calendar, units and conventions

First day of the week
Sunday
Weekend
Saturday to Sunday
First week of the year
Contains at least 1 day of the new year
Hour cycle
12-hour (1–12), also H
Calendars
gregorian
Measurement system
Metric
Temperature
Celsius
Paper size
A4
Locales

Number and date formats

As written by the Dzongkha (Bhutan) locale (dz-BT), amounts in BTN.

Number
༡༢,༣༤,༥༦༧.༨༩༡
Percent
༤༥.༧ %
Currency (BTN)
Nu. ༡༢,༣༤,༥༦༧.༨༩
Accounting
-Nu. ༡༢,༣༤,༥༦༧.༨༩
Currency, name
༡༢,༣༤,༥༦༧.༨༩ དངུལ་ཀྲམ
Compact short
༡.༢M
Compact long
ས་ཡ་ ༡.༢
Scientific
༡.༢༣༥E༦
Speed
༨༨ km/h
Temperature
༢༡.༥°C
Date, full
གཟའ་སྤེན་པ་, སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་གསུམ་པ་ ཚེས་༢༧
Date, long
སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་གསུམ་པ་ ཚེས་ ༢༧
Date, medium
སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་༣ ཚེས་༢༧
Date, short
༢༠༢༦-༠༣-༢༧
Time, medium
ཆུ་ཚོད་༣:༠༤:༠༥ ཕྱི་ཆ་
Time, short
ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༣ སྐར་མ་ ༠༤ ཕྱི་ཆ་
Date and time
སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་༣ ཚེས་༢༧ ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༣ སྐར་མ་ ༠༤ ཕྱི་ཆ་
Month and year
༢༠༢༦ ཟླ་གསུམ་པ་
Weekday
གཟའ་སྤེན་པ་
Relative time
ཁ་ཙ་ · ཉིནམ་ ༣ ནང་ · ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༢ ཧེ་མ་
List: and
A དང་ B དང་ C
List: or
A, B, or C

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