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Bhutan

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Level countryWithin —Coordinates 27.5270° N, 90.4095° EOpenStreetMap ↗
Paro Taktsang monastery in the upper Paro valley of Bhutan. Also known as the Taktsang Palphug Monastery and the Tiger's Nest, it is located in the cliffside of a mountain, around a cave where Guru Padmasambhava meditated and practiced Vajrayana Buddhism in the early 9th…

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Paro Taktsang monastery in the upper Paro valley of Bhutan. Also known as the Taktsang Palphug Monastery and the Tiger's Nest, it is located in the cliffside of a mountain, around a cave where Guru Padmasambhava meditated and practiced Vajrayana Buddhism in the early 9th…
Village of Yowakha, Bhutan

Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0

Village of Yowakha, Bhutan
Rice terraces, Sopsokha, Bhutan

Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0

Rice terraces, Sopsokha, Bhutan
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Natural Earth 1:10m Cultural Vectors — Admin 0 CountriesNatural EarthPublic domain
Wikidata — BhutanWikidataCC0 1.0
"Bhutan." Folkroom Archive (Places), https://folkroom.org/places/bhutan · CC BY-SA 4.0.