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State in the Eastern Himálaya, between 26° 45′ and 28° N. latitude, and between 89° and 92° E. longitude, bordered on the north and east by Tibet, on the west by the Tibetan district of Chumbí and by Sikkim, and on the south by British India. Extreme length from east to west 190 miles; extreme breadth 90 miles. Area about 18,000 square miles; population estimated at 300,000.
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Books of Reference concerning Bhutan
Accounts relating to the Trade by Land of British India with Foreign Countries. Annual. Calcutta.
Report on Explorations in Sikkim, Bhután and Tibet, 1856–86. Edited by Lieut.-Col. G. Strahan, Dehra Dun, 1889.
A Collection of Treaties and Engagements, relating to India and neighbouring Countries. By C. U. Aitchison. Vol. XIV. Calcutta.
Ronaldshay (the Earl of), Lands of the Thunderbolt. London, 1923.
White (J. C.), Sikkim and Bhután. London 1909.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1947). Bhután. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270763_19
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