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Trongsa District

Trongsa District is one of the districts of Bhutan. It is the most central district of Bhutan and the geographic centre of Bhutan is located within it at Trongsa Dzong.
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  • Type: State with 20,000 residents
  • Description: district of Bhutan
  • Also known as: “Tongsa”, “Tongsa Dzong”, “Tongsa Dzongkhag”, and “Trongsa”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trongsa.

Photo: CFynn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, previously Tongsa, is a Thromde or town, and the capital of District in central . The name means "new village" in Dzongkha. The first temple was built in 1543 by the Drukpa lama Ngagi Wangchuck, who was the great-grandfather of Ngawang Namgyal, Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the unifier of Bhutan.

Trongsa District

Latitude
27.4982° or 27° 29′ 54″ north
Longitude
90.4691° or 90° 28′ 9″ east
Population
20,000
Elevation
1,892 metres (6,207 feet)
Open location code
7MVGFFX9+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4353336394
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1337294
Wiki­data ID
Q728938
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Trongsa District” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة ترونغزا”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Trongsa”
  • Asturian: “Trongsa”
  • Bengali: “ত্রোংসা জেলা”
  • Bulgarian: “Тронгса”
  • Catalan: “Districte de Trongsa”
  • Cebuano: “Trongsa Dzongkhag”
  • Chinese: “Trongsa Koān”
  • Chinese: “通萨宗”
  • Chinese: “通薩宗”
  • Danish: “Trongsa District”
  • Dutch: “Dzongkhag Trongsa”
  • Dutch: “Trongsa”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀྲོང་གསར་རྫོང་ཁག”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Trongsa”
  • Estonian: “Trongsa ringkond”
  • Finnish: “Trongsa”
  • French: “Trongsa”
  • Galician: “Distrito de Trongsa”
  • German: “BT-32”
  • German: “Trongsa”
  • Greek: “Τρόνγκσα”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્રોન્ગ્સા જિલ્લો”
  • Hebrew: “טונגסה”
  • Hindi: “ट्रोंगसा जिला”
  • Hungarian: “Trongsa körzet”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Trongsa”
  • Italian: “distretto di Trongsa”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Trongsa”
  • Japanese: “トンサ”
  • Japanese: “トンサ県”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ರಾಂಗ್ಸಾ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Korean: “통사 현”
  • Korean: “트롱사현”
  • Latvian: “Tongsā distrikts”
  • Lithuanian: “Trongsos apskritis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Trongsa”
  • Malay: “Trongsa District”
  • Marathi: “ट्रॉन्ज जिल्हा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Trongsa Koān”
  • Nepali: “ट्रोङ्सा जिल्ला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Trongsa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Trongsa”
  • Norwegian: “Trongsa”
  • Persian: “ناحیه ترونگسا”
  • Polish: “Dystrykt Tongsa”
  • Polish: “Dystrykt Trongsa”
  • Polish: “Trongsa”
  • Portuguese: “Trongsa”
  • Pushto: “ترونگسا ولسوالۍ”
  • Romanian: “Trongsa”
  • Russian: “Тонгса”
  • Russian: “Тронгса”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱨᱚᱝᱥᱟ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Sinhala: “ට්‍රොන්ග්සා දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Trongsa”
  • Swedish: “Trongsa”
  • Tamil: “ட்ரோங்ஸ்சா மாவட்டம்”
  • Telugu: “ట్రాంగ్సా జిల్లా”
  • Thai: “เขตตงซา”
  • Tibetan: “ཀྲོང་གསར་གི་ས་ཁོངས།”
  • Turkish: “Trongsa District”
  • Ukrainian: “Тронгса”
  • Urdu: “ترونگسا ضلع”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Trongsa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Trongsa”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ٹرونگزا”

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