Map of Bhutan

Bhutan is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 27.5° N, 90.5° E. Bhutan is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 2 neighbours — China and India — with no coastline of its own. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Bhutan is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Bhutan is surrounded by the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Bhutan covers about 38,394 km² (14,824 sq mi). That makes it the 133rd-largest country in the world by area and the 36th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 13 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 784,043, the 162nd-largest in the world and the 47th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Bhutan has an average population density of about 20 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 47th by population and 36th by area.

The seat of government is Thimphu, and the official currency is the Bhutanese ngultrum (BTN, Nu.), and the main official language is Dzongkha. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+06:00.

Bhutan carries the ISO country codes BT and BTN, dials on the international calling code +975 and uses the .bt internet domain.

Bhutan shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are India (capital New Delhi, about 1,417,492,000 people) and China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people).

By area, Bhutan is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 27.5° N, 90.5° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Bhutan within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Thimphu. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Bhutan lies about 3,052 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Bhutan keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+06:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +06:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

Bhutan recognises more than one official currency: Bhutanese ngultrum (BTN, Nu.) and Indian rupee (INR, ₹).

The official language is Dzongkha, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +975 and websites commonly use the .bt internet domain.

In short, Bhutan is a landlocked country in Asia, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Thimphu. Bhutan has a population of about 784,043 and covers around 38,394 km² (14,824 sq mi), ranking it 162nd in the world by population and 133rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Bhutan.

The flag of Bhutan is divided diagonally, from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner, into an upper yellow and a lower orange triangle. A fly-side facing white dragon holding four jewels in its claws is situated along the boundary of the two triangles.

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