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Source: Firstpost
Context: Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck has unveiled the ‘Gelephu Smartcity Project,’ a mega international city near the Indian border covering 1,000 square kilometres.
The project aims to create an economic corridor connecting South Asia with Southeast Asia via India’s northeastern states, particularly Assam. The Gelephu Special Administrative Region (SAR) will have different laws to attract foreign investment and include plans for an international airport. The project involves an India-Bhutan railway line to Gelephu and aims to connect Bhutan to Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Singapore.
Bhutan is a landlocked country in the Eastern Himalayas, bordered by China and India. Known as “Druk Yul” or “Land of the Thunder Dragon,” it has a constitutional monarchy with a king as the head of state and a prime minister as the head of government. Vajrayana Buddhism is the state religion, and Gangkhar Puensum is its highest peak, also the highest unclimbed mountain globally.
