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Bumthang District

Bumthang District is one of the 20 dzongkhag comprising . It contains numerous temples and Buddhist sacred sites. The district is divided into four village blocks, each corresponding to a major glacial valley: Choekor, Tang, , and Chhume.
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  • Type: County with 17,800 residents
  • Description: district in Central Bhutan
  • Also known as: “Bum-thang rzong-khag”

Bumthang District

Latitude
27.7° or 27° 42′ north
Longitude
90.7833° or 90° 47′ east
Population
17,800
Elevation
3,873 metres (12,707 feet)
Open location code
7MVGPQ2M+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316753040
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
1337278
Wiki­data ID
Q463242
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bumthang District” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بامثانغ”
  • Asturian: “Distritu de Bumthang”
  • Belarusian: “Бумтанг”
  • Bengali: “বুমথাং জেলা”
  • Bulgarian: “Бумтанг”
  • Catalan: “Districte de Bumthang”
  • Cebuano: “Bumthang Dzongkhag”
  • Chinese: “Bumthang Koān”
  • Chinese: “布姆唐宗”
  • Chinese: “苯塘省”
  • Czech: “Bumthang”
  • Danish: “Bumthang District”
  • Dutch: “Bumthang”
  • Dutch: “Dzongkhag Bumthang”
  • Dzongkha: “བུམ་ཐང་རྫོང་ཁག་”
  • Dzongkha: “བུམ་ཐང་རྫོང་ཁག”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Bumthang”
  • Estonian: “Bumthangi ringkond”
  • Finnish: “Bumthang”
  • French: “Bumthang”
  • Galician: “Distrito de Bumthang”
  • German: “BT-33”
  • German: “Bumthang”
  • Greek: “Μπουμθάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “બંથાંગ જિલ્લો”
  • Hindi: “बुमथांग जिला”
  • Hungarian: “Bumthang körzet”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Bumthang”
  • Italian: “distretto di Bumthang”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Bumthang”
  • Japanese: “ブムタン”
  • Japanese: “ブムタン県”
  • Kannada: “ಬುಮ್ತಂಗ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Korean: “붐탕현”
  • Latvian: “Bumtangas distrikts”
  • Lithuanian: “Bumtango rajonas”
  • Malay: “Bumthang District”
  • Marathi: “बमथांग जिल्हा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bumthang Koān”
  • Nepali: “बुमथाङ जिल्ला”
  • Newari: “बुमथङ जिल्ला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bumthang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bumthang”
  • Norwegian: “Bumthang”
  • Persian: “استان بومتهنگ”
  • Persian: “ناحیه بومتهنگ”
  • Polish: “Bumtʽang”
  • Polish: “Dystrykt Bumthang”
  • Portuguese: “Bumthang”
  • Pushto: “بومتھانگ ولسوالۍ”
  • Romanian: “Bhumthang”
  • Romanian: “Bumthang”
  • Russian: “Бумтанг”
  • Russian: “Бумтханг”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱩᱢᱛᱷᱟᱝ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Serbian: “Бумтанг”
  • Sinhala: “බුම්තාන්ග් දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovak: “Bumthang”
  • Slovenian: “Okraj Bumtang”
  • Slovenian: “Okraj Bumthang”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Bumthang”
  • Swedish: “Bumthang”
  • Tamil: “பும்தாங் மாவட்டம்”
  • Tamil: “பூமதங் மாவட்டம்”
  • Telugu: “బుమ్తాంగ్ జిల్లా”
  • Thai: “เขตบุมทัง”
  • Tibetan: “བུམ་ཐང་གི་ས་ཁོངས།”
  • Turkish: “Bumthang District”
  • Turkish: “Bumthang ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Бумтанг”
  • Urdu: “بومتھانگ ضلع”
  • Vietnamese: “Bumthang”
  • Vietnamese: “Huyện Bumthang”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bumthang”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع بومتھانگ”

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