Bhutan
Southern Asia · Thimphu
Everything Mapfold knows about Bhutan, and the 3 answers that pick it out of all 192 countries the game can hide.
Bhutan in figures
- Capital
- Thimphu
- Region
- Southern Asia
- Area
- 38,394 km²
- Population
- 796,682
- Density
- 20.8 /km²
- Land neighbours
- 2
- Coast
- Landlocked
- Highest point
- 7,570 m
- Mean temperature
- 10.4 °C
- Life expectancy
- 73.3 years
- GDP per head
- US$ 4,493
- Urban
- 43.4 %
- Forest
- 71.6 %
Bhutan in Mapfold
Every question in the game, and what Bhutan answers to it. This is not a fact about Bhutan so much as a fact about where it sits among the other 191 — which is the only kind of fact a deduction game runs on.
The shortest way to find Bhutan
3 answers are enough to leave Bhutan alone in the daylight, starting from all 192. Taking the largest available cut each time, which is what the game scores you against:
- 1
More than 60% of it is forest.
26 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 2
It is landlocked.
2 STILL IN DAYLIGHT - 3
Fewer than a million people live there.
1 STILL IN DAYLIGHT
What makes Bhutan unusual
More than 60% of it is forest.
26 of 192 countriesIt is landlocked.
43 of 192 countriesIt is in Asia.
46 of 192 countries
Every Mapfold question, answered
All 35 questions Mapfold can put to the world, ordered by how much hearing this answer would narrow it.
- NATURE
More than 60% of it is forest.
26 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than a million people live there.
36 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It is landlocked.
43 of 192 countries - REGION
It is in Asia.
46 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages under 12 °C all year.
49 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than 50 people live there per square kilometre.
59 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 100,000 km².
85 of 192 countries - CLIMATE
It averages cooler than 22 °C all year.
88 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies east of 20°E.
97 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than ten million people live there.
97 of 192 countries - NATURE
More than 30% of it is forest.
100 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Life expectancy there is below 75.
107 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $12,000.
114 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is above 2,000 m.
118 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than 70% of people live in towns and cities.
119 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It runs wider than it is tall.
126 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders fewer than five countries.
132 of 192 countries - SIZE
It is bigger than Belgium.
135 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
It is thinner than 150 people per square kilometre.
136 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It borders at least two countries.
138 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Africa.
138 of 192 countries - SIZE
It covers less than 500,000 km².
141 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Europe.
148 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It lies in the northern hemisphere.
154 of 192 countries - BORDERS
It has at least one land neighbour.
155 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in the Americas.
157 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Its centre lies south of 45°N.
160 of 192 countries - PEOPLE
Fewer than fifty million people live there.
161 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
GDP per head is below $40,000.
163 of 192 countries - LOCATION
Neither tropic crosses it.
165 of 192 countries - ECONOMY
It does not use the euro.
167 of 192 countries - NATURE
Its highest point is over 500 m.
171 of 192 countries - LOCATION
It spans less than 20° of longitude.
175 of 192 countries - REGION
It is not in Oceania.
179 of 192 countries - LOCATION
The equator does not cross it.
181 of 192 countries
How Bhutan compares
- Bigger than Guinea-Bissau
- Smaller than Switzerland
- More people than Luxembourg
- Fewer people than Guyana
- 133rd largest of 192 by area
- 161st by population, of 192
Which countries border Bhutan
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