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Thimphu District

Thimphu District is a dzongkhag of . is also the capital of Bhutan and the largest city in the whole kingdom.
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  • Type: State with 139,000 residents
  • Description: dzongkhag of Bhutan
  • Also known as: “Thimphu”

Thimphu District

Latitude
27.5583° or 27° 33′ 30″ north
Longitude
89.5525° or 89° 33′ 9″ east
Population
139,000
Elevation
3,634 metres (11,923 feet)
Open location code
7MVFHH52+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4353325729
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1337293
Wiki­data ID
Q254889
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Thimphu District” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة ثيمفو”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Thimphu”
  • Asturian: “Thimphu”
  • Bengali: “থিম্ফু জেলা”
  • Bulgarian: “Тхимпху”
  • Catalan: “Districte de Thimphu”
  • Cebuano: “Thimphu Dzongkhag”
  • Chinese: “Thimphu Koān”
  • Chinese: “廷布宗”
  • Danish: “Thimphu District”
  • Dutch: “Thimphu”
  • Dzongkha: “ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག་”
  • Dzongkha: “ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Timbuo”
  • Estonian: “Thimphu ringkond”
  • Finnish: “Thimphu”
  • French: “Thimphou”
  • Galician: “Distrito de Thimphu”
  • German: “Thimphu”
  • Greek: “Τιμπού (περιοχή)”
  • Gujarati: “થિમ્ફુ જિલ્લો”
  • Hindi: “थिम्फू जिला”
  • Hungarian: “Thimphu körzet”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Thimphu”
  • Italian: “distretto di Thimphu”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Thimphu”
  • Japanese: “ティンプー”
  • Japanese: “ティンプー県”
  • Kannada: “ತಿಮ್ಮು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Korean: “팀부현”
  • Latvian: “Thimphu distrikts”
  • Lithuanian: “Timfu regionas”
  • Malay: “Thimphu District”
  • Marathi: “थिंपू जिल्हा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Thimphu Koān”
  • Mongolian: “Тхимпху зонкаг”
  • Nepali: “थिम्पु जिल्ला”
  • Nepali: “थिम्फू जिल्ला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Thimphu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thimphu distrikt”
  • Persian: “استان تیمفو”
  • Persian: “ناحیه تیمفو”
  • Polish: “Thimphu”
  • Portuguese: “Thimphu”
  • Pushto: “تھمپھو ولسوالۍ”
  • Romanian: “Districtul Thimphu”
  • Romanian: “Thimphu”
  • Russian: “Тхимпху”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱷᱤᱢᱯᱩ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Serbian: “Тимбу”
  • Sinhala: “තිම්පු දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovenian: “Okraj Thimphu”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Timbu”
  • Swedish: “Thimphu”
  • Tamil: “திம்பு மாவட்டம்”
  • Tamil: “தீம்ப்ஹு மாவட்டம்”
  • Telugu: “థింపు జిల్లా”
  • Thai: “ทิมพู”
  • Tibetan: “ཐིམ་ཕུ་གི་ས་ཁོངས།”
  • Turkish: “Thimpu District”
  • Ukrainian: “Тхімпху”
  • Urdu: “تھمپھو ضلع”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Thimphu”
  • Vietnamese: “Thimphu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Thimphu”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع تھمپھو”

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