It’s a vibrant democracy with a population roughly the size of Australia’s, yet few Aussies could name its capital, let alone its newly re-elected female president.
Country profile
The ‘land of the dragon’, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a tiny and remote kingdom nestling in the Himalayas between its powerful neighbours, India and China.
In the First Five-Year National Development Plan, an amount of $100 million was allotted by the government where importance was given to the development of communication and telecommunication, agriculture and fisheries, infrastructure and resettlement schemes, education, and medical services.
At the centre of this country and all its dynamics, there is the Saʿūd dynasty, which for more than a century has influenced the balance of the entire world.
Bahrain monarchy was the first state in the Persian Gulf to discover oil and build a refinery. The tiny country is ruled by a Sunni monarchy with a Shia majority population. The island, once known as heaven still faces the impacts of the pearl revolution.
Despite is one of the least internationally visible countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Oman is an important player both from a geopolitical point of view and in terms of regional balances.
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