Bhutan’s Physical Characteristics Bhutan’s isolation from the Western world is mainly attributed by its geography. Situated in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan is a landlocked kingdom bordered by the Tibetan autonomous region of the People’s Republic of China in the north and Indian states of Arunanchal Pradesh, Assam and West Bengal in the south. It is located between 88°45’and 92°10’ longitude east and between 26°40’ and 28°15’ latitude north. It covers an area of 38,394 km2, roughly 150 km north to south and 300 km east to west, with a population of about 650,000 people of which more than 85% are  [ Read More ]