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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An isolated country of South Asia in the eastern Himalaya Mountains. A Buddhist kingdom that long resisted modernization, Bhutan began a series of democratic reforms starting in the 1990s. Thimphu is the capital and the largest city.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a principality in the Himalayas northeast of India.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun a landlocked Himalayan country in South Asia. Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a landlocked principality in the Himalayas to the northeast of India

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