ABC News (Australia) published this video item, entitled “Bhutan earns first-ever Academy Award nomination with “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” | The World” – below is their description.
For the first time ever the tiny landlocked kingdom of Bhutan will feature at the Academy Awards. “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” is among the five nominees for best international feature, and as Manny Tsigas reports, its journey to the big-screen is just as ambitious and heartwarming as the people it portrays.
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Bhutan, officially known as the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in the Eastern Himalayas in South Asia. It is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north, the Chumbi Valley of Tibet and is barely separated from Nepal, from the Indian state of Sikkim in the west and the Indian states of Assam, West Bengal, and Arunachal Pradesh in the south, east and southwest.
Bhutan is geopolitically in South Asia and is the region’s second-least-populous nation after the Maldives. Thimphu is its capital and the largest city, while Phuntsholing is its financial center.
The government is a parliamentary democracy; the head of state is the King of Bhutan, known as the “Dragon King.” The Royal Bhutan Army maintains a close relationship with the Indian Armed Forces.
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