Nestled above the far northeast corner of India, Bhutan has a northern border with Tibet that runs along a treacherous seam of the Eastern Himalayan mountain range, which has historically protected the Switzerland-sized country from outside influence and allowed it to remain one of the only nations in the world never to be colonized by an outside power.
Until very recently, this geographic and political isolation delayed Bhutan’s progress toward modernization. The first paved road wasn’t completed until 1962 and the government didn’t open its borders to foreign visitors until 1974. There are still no traffic lights in the entire country.
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