Bhutan: The tale of two towns- Thimphu and Paro (Robert Michael Poole, South Asia Monitor)

Thimphu, Bhutan’s largest city, is the economic powerhouse of the country, accounting for some 45% of the country’s GNP. But with just under 100,000 people it is far from a metropolis. Spacious and spread out across the backs of the Raidak River, houses cascade down mountains sides and forests engulf some sections of Thimphu, which only becamse capital in 1961, uniting a series of hamlets

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