Regional Information-
Capital CityThimphu
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Regional Relationshipsover 100,000 Bhutanese Lhotshampas (Hindus) have been confined in seven UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees camps since 1990; Bhutan cooperates with India to expel Indian Nagaland separatists; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a boundary alignment to resolve substantial cartographic discrepancies, the largest of which lies in Bhutan's northwest
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Environmental: Goals/Challenges/Agreements
Challenges
Soil erosion; limited access to potable water
International Agreements
Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea
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Humanitarian Projects -
Native Languages Dzongkha (official), Bhotes speak various Tibetan dialects, Nepalese speak various Nepalese dialects
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Climate Varies; tropical in southern plains; cool winters and hot summers in central valleys; severe winters and cool summers in Himalayas
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