General Reference
- Pronunciation: /buːˈtɑːn/
- Common English country name: Bhutan
- Official English country name: The Kingdom of Bhutan
- Common endonym(s): Druk Yul (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཡུལ་; Wylie: 'Brug yul)
- Official endonym(s): Dru Gäkhap (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་; Wylie: 'Brug Gyal-khab)
- Adjectival(s): Druk, Bhutanese
- Demonym(s): Bhutanese
- Etymology: Name of Bhutan
- International rankings of Bhutan
- ISO country codes: BT, BTN, 064
- ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:BT
- Internet country code top-level domain: .bt
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