Bhutan’s national flag has a dragon holding jewels in its design.
The flag shows a white Druk, or thunder dragon, stretched diagonally across a field divided into yellow and orange triangles. The dragon holds jewels in its claws, symbolizing Bhutan’s wealth and security.
The Druk is a central figure in Bhutanese culture and is associated with the name Druk Yul, meaning “Land of the Thunder Dragon.” Yellow represents the authority of the king, while orange represents the spiritual traditions of Buddhism.
Bhutan’s dragon is often compared with Wales’s red dragon, but the two flags are very different. Wales displays a red dragon over green and white horizontal fields; Bhutan displays a white dragon over yellow and orange.