Kingdom of Sikkim
Kingdom in South Asia (1642–1975)
Kingdom of Sikkim
The Kingdom of Sikkim (Classical Tibetan and Sikkimese: འབྲས་ལྗོངས།, Drenjong, Dzongkha: སི་ཀིམ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ།, Sikimr Gyalkhab), officially Dremoshong (Classical Tibetan and Sikkimese: འབྲས་མོ་གཤོངས།) was a hereditary monarchy in the Eastern Himalayas which existed from 1642 to 16 May 1975, when it was annexed by India and became the state of Sikkim. It was ruled by Chogyals, or monarchs, of the Namgyal dynasty. At the time of its annexation into India, Sikkhim was about 7,096 km² (2,740 sq mi), and bordered Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the east, Tibet to the north, and India (West Bengal) to the south.
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