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Bhutanese passport
File:The front cover of Bhutanese passport.jpg The front cover of a Bhutanese passport
Type	Passport
Issued by	Bhutan
Purpose	Identification
Eligibility	Bhutanese Citizen

A Bhutanese passport is a document which authorises and facilitates travel and other activities in Bhutan or by Bhutanese citizens.

In the Kingdom of Bumthang, which constitutes a part of modern day Bhutan, feudal passbooks or 'dzeng' were issued to court messengers in order to travel from kingdom to kingdom.^[1] Diplomacy and mediating were crucially important measures in pre-modern Bhutan chiefdoms. ^[2]

Foreign travel passports are issued to citizens of Bhutan for international travel. New Bhutanese passports are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ^[3]

Types of Passport

• Ordinary passport (red), Shinthron passport (Dzongkha: ་དགེ་འདུན་)
• Official passport (green), Pawchang passport (Dzongkha: ་དབྱངས།་)
• Diplomatic passport (blue), Denzhen passport (Dzongkha: ཞག་དང་རྣ)