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BHUTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bhutan mean? 

BHUTAN (noun)
  The noun BHUTAN has 1 sense:

1. a landlocked principality in the Himalayas to the northeast of Indiaplay

  Familiarity information: BHUTAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BHUTAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked principality in the Himalayas to the northeast of India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bhutan; Kingdom of Bhutan

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (members of "Bhutan"):

Bhutanese; Bhutani (a native or inhabitant of Bhutan)

Holonyms ("Bhutan" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)


 Context examples 


Denotes the inhabitants of Bhutan, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Bhutanese, NCI Thesaurus)

The extended Himalayas, also known as the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) area, includes several of the world’s highest mountains that are strung out over 3,600 kilometres across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)



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