Kingdom of Sikkim

Kingdom of Sikkim
འབྲས་ལྗོངས། (Sikkimese)
*Drenjong*
འབྲས་མོ་གཤོངས། (Classical Tibetan)
*Dremoshong*
ᰕᰚᰬᰯ ᰜᰤᰴ (Lepcha)
*Mayel Lyang*
Kingdom of Sikkim འབྲས་ལྗོངས། (Sikkimese); Drenjong; འབྲས་མོ་གཤོངས། (Classical Tibetan); Dremoshong; ᰕᰚᰬᰯ ᰜᰤᰴ (Lepcha); Mayel Lyang
1642–1975
	Flag; Top: State flag (1967–1975); Bottom: Royal flag (1877–1975) Coat of arms
	Motto: "Oh, the jewel of creation is in the Lotus"
	Anthem: Drenjong Silé Yang Chhagpa Chilo; "Why is Sikkim Blooming So Fresh and Beautiful?"
	; ; Location and administrative map of the Kingdom of Sikkim before incorporation into India
Status	Protectorate of Tibet of Qing China (until 1890) Bhutanese domination (1680/1700–1792); Nepalese domination (1776–1792); Nepalo-Bhutanese presence (1792–1816); East India Company presence (1816–1858); ; Presence of British Raj (1858–1861); Protectorate of the British Raj (1861–1947) (de facto); Protectorate of India (1950–1975);
Capital	Yuksom (1642–1670); Rabdentse (1670–1793); Tumlong (1793–1894); Gangtok (1894–1975);
Official languages	Chöke, Sikkimese
Common languages	Lepcha (early period), Dzongkha, Nepali (late period)
Religion	Tibetan Buddhism; Nepali Hinduism
Demonyms	Drenjop, Sikkimese
Government	Absolute monarchy (until 1973); Parliamentary constitutional monarchy (1973–1975)
Chogyal
• 1642–1670 (first)	Phuntsog Namgyal
• 1963–1975 (last)	Palden Thondup Namgyal
Prime Minister
• 1949 (first)	Tashi Tshering
• 1974–1975 (last)	Kazi Lhendup Dorjee
Legislature	State Council of Sikkim
History
• Established	1642
• Bhutanese 1st Invasion	1680
• Bhutanese 2nd Invasion	1700
• Nepalese Invasion	1776
• Treaty of Titalia signed	1817
• Darjeeling given to British India	1835
• Palden Thondup Namgyal forced to abdicate	1975
• Merger with India	16 May 1975
Currency	Rupee
ISO 3166 code	SK
Today part of	India

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།) until the 1800s, was a hereditary monarchy in the Eastern Himalayas that existed from 1642 to 16 May 1975, when it was annexed by India. It was ruled by Chogyals of the Namgyal dynasty.