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Punakha District

Punakha District is one of the 20 dzongkhags comprising . It is bordered by , , and . The dominant language in the district is Dzongkha, the national language.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Punakha.

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is the administrative centre of dzongkhag, one of the 20 districts of . was the capital of Bhutan and the seat of government until 1955, when the capital was moved to .

Punakha District

Latitude
27.6363° or 27° 38′ 11″ north
Longitude
89.8364° or 89° 50′ 11″ east
Population
28,700
Elevation
2,800 metres (9,186 feet)
Open location code
7MVFJRPP+GG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4353323820
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1337288
Wiki­data ID
Q587062
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Punakha District” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بوناخا”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Punakha”
  • Asturian: “Punakha”
  • Bengali: “পুনাখা জেলা”
  • Bulgarian: “Пунака”
  • Catalan: “districte de Punakha”
  • Catalan: “Districte de Punakha”
  • Cebuano: “Punakha Dzongkhag”
  • Chinese: “Punakha Koān”
  • Chinese: “普那卡宗”
  • Danish: “Punakha District”
  • Dutch: “Punakha”
  • Dzongkha: “སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Punaĥa”
  • Estonian: “Punakha ringkond”
  • Finnish: “Punakha”
  • French: “Punakha”
  • Galician: “Distrito de Punakha”
  • German: “Punakha”
  • Greek: “Πουνάκχα”
  • Gujarati: “પનાખા જિલ્લો”
  • Hebrew: “פונקה”
  • Hindi: “पुनाखा जिला”
  • Hungarian: “Punakha körzet”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Punakha”
  • Italian: “distretto di Punakha”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Punakha”
  • Japanese: “プナカ県”
  • Kannada: “ಪುನಾಖ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Korean: “푸나카현”
  • Latvian: “Punakhas distrikts”
  • Lithuanian: “Punakos apskritis”
  • Malay: “Punakha District”
  • Marathi: “पन्हाखा जिल्हा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Punakha Koān”
  • Nepali: “पुनाखा जिल्ला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Punakha”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Punakha”
  • Norwegian: “Punakha”
  • Persian: “ناحیه پوناخا”
  • Polish: “Dystrykt Punakha”
  • Polish: “Punakʽa”
  • Portuguese: “Punakha”
  • Pushto: “پوناخا ولسوالۍ”
  • Romanian: “Punakha”
  • Russian: “Пунакха”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱩᱱᱟᱠᱷᱟ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Serbian: “Пунака”
  • Sinhala: “පූනකා දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovenian: “Okraj Punaka”
  • Slovenian: “Okraj Punakha”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Punakha”
  • Swedish: “Punakha”
  • Tamil: “புனகா மாவட்டம்”
  • Telugu: “పునాఖా జిల్లా”
  • Thai: “เขตปูนาคา”
  • Tibetan: “སྤུ་ན་ཁ་གི་ས་ཁོངས།”
  • Turkish: “Punakha District”
  • Ukrainian: “Пунакха”
  • Urdu: “پوناخا ضلع”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Punakha”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Punakha”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع پوناکھا”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع پوناکھہ”

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