2016: Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 56, Political Rights: 3, Civil Liberties: 4
Bhutan (འབྲུག་ཡུལ་ Druk Yul), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ Druk Gyal Khap), is a landlocked country in southern Asia. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north, the Sikkim state of India and the Chumbi Valley of Tibet in the west, the Arunachal Pradesh state of India in the east and the states of Assam and West Bengal in the south. Bhutan is geopolitically in South Asia and is the region's second least populous nation after the Maldives. Thimphu is its capital and largest city, while Phuntsholing is its financial center.
Measures of Freedom
2016: Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 56, Political Rights: 3, Civil Liberties: 4
2014: 6.82, Rank: 79, Personal Freedom: 6.57, Economic Freedom: 7.07, Democracy Index: 5.21
2014: 7.07, Rank: 75
The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "Bhutan" as of 29 Sep 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.