Bhutan

Kingdom Butane (or Druk-jul - the country of a dragon) - the state in Southern Asia, had between India and China on remote slopes of East Himalayas. The square 47  thousand sq. km. The population - 1,55  million persons. Capital - Thimphu. The basic population of Butane compound bhotija - mongoloidnaja an ethnic group of the Tibetan parentage. The state religion - a Lamaism.

Butane - mainly highland. Average altitude of the Himalaya ridge in its terrain - 4-6  thousand in m. Slopes of mounts in the central part are covered by thick woods from the Himalaya oak, a chestnut, a beech, a nut arbour, a pine, a deodar cedar. Coniferous vegetation above 4500  the m is replaced kustarnikovoj and Alpine meadows. Most favourable conditions for life and economic activities of the person represent the valleys which have been had at altitude 1200-500  m above sea level. Here cultivate rice, vegetables, fruit crops. Above, to 2700  the m, grows wheat, and to 4200-4500  m - a buckwheat, barley, a potato, corn. In high-mountainous cattle breeding regions peasants breed yaks, goats, sheep, horses.

For Butane are characteristic dzongi - the colossal monasteries-fortresses containing of some thousand of persons and builted on small pjatachkah of unapproachable rocks. With the course of time around dzongov there were settlements, including country capital - Thimphu (27  thousand inhabitants). In kingdom nearby 200  monasteries in which lives 5000 outlet boxes and nuns, from them 1000  in Tashichhodzonge - the largest monastery of kingdom. Sovereign the llama of Butane under the status is the second person in the state (after the king).