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Type Country
Scripts འབྲུག་ཡུལ་(Dzongkha, Tibetan)
Other Forms FormsDru-Ü (Bhutanese), Brug Yul (Tibetan)
Meaning & History
From Tibetan འབྲུག (brug) meaning "thunder dragon" (a mythical creature in Bhutanese and Tibetan mythology) combined with ཡུལ (yul) meaning "country, nation, kingdom". This is the Bhutanese and Tibetan name for Bhutan.