Bhutan is a small country with only 649,847 people. The country is only 38,394 square kilometer large and all of it it land no water. It is a landlocked country, no oceans around it, surrounded by China and India. To give you more perspective it is roughly half the size of India.
One current event is that it is in a turf war with China. The dispute has gone on since between the early and mid 1900's. China has settled most of its territorial disputes except for with Bhutan and India. In 2009 the first batch of 25,000 refugees left camps in seven United Nations-supervised camps in eastern Nepal, and the vast majority of the 86,000 remaining have signed up for resettlement in the West, most of them headed for the United States. Many people thought that Bhutan was and still may be headed for extinction if they didn't do anything to stop the demographic pressure.
One current event is that it is in a turf war with China. The dispute has gone on since between the early and mid 1900's. China has settled most of its territorial disputes except for with Bhutan and India. In 2009 the first batch of 25,000 refugees left camps in seven United Nations-supervised camps in eastern Nepal, and the vast majority of the 86,000 remaining have signed up for resettlement in the West, most of them headed for the United States. Many people thought that Bhutan was and still may be headed for extinction if they didn't do anything to stop the demographic pressure.
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