Wangdue Phodrang District
Wangdue Phodrang District is a Thromde and dzongkhag of central Bhutan. This is also the name of the dzong which dominates the district. The name is said to have been given by the Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal who was searching for the best location for a dzong to prevent incursions from the south.
- State with about 42,200 residents
- Description: district of Bhutan
- Also known as“Wangdi Phodrang Dzongkhag”“Wangdü Phodrang”“དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག་”
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Latitude
27.5022° or 27° 30′ 8″ north
Longitude
90.0942° or 90° 5′ 39″ east
Open location code
7MVGG32V+VM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = state
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Wangdue Phodrang District” goes by many names.
مقاطعة وانغدو فودرانغArabic
distritu de Wangdue PhodrangAsturian
Wangdue PhodrangAsturian
ওয়াংদুয়ে ফোদ্রাং জেলাBengali
Вангдуе ПходрангBulgarian
Districte de Wangdue PhodrangCatalan
Wangdue Phodrang DzongkhagCebuano
旺杜波德朗宗Chinese
Wangdue Phodrang DistrictDanish
Dzongkhag Wangdue PhodrangDutch
Wangdue PhodrangDutch
དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁགDzongkha
Distrikto Ŭangdue PodrangEsperanto
Wangdue Phodrangi ringkondEstonian
Wangdue PhodrangFinnish
Distrito de Wangdue PhodrangGalician
Γουάνγκντουε ΦόντρανγκGreek
વાંગડુ ફોડ્રાંગ જિલ્લોGujarati
वांगद्यू फोद्रांग जिलाHindi
Wangdue Phodrang körzetHungarian
Distrik Wangdue PhodrangIndonesian
Distretto di Wangdue PhodrangItalian
ワンデ・ポドランJapanese
ワンデュ・ポダン県Japanese
ವಾಂಗ್ಡು ಫೊಡ್ರಾಂಗ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆKannada
왕두에 포드랑 현Korean
왕디 포드랑 현Korean
Vangdi-Podrangas distriktsLatvian
Vangde Podrango apskritisLithuanian
Wangdue PhodrangLuxembourgish
Wangdue Phodrang DistrictMalay
वांगदु फोडरंग जिल्हाMarathi
Wangdue Phodrang KoānMin Nan Chinese
Distrik Wangdue PhodrangMinangkabau
वाङ्डु फोड्रङ जिल्लाNepali
Wangdue PhodrangNorthern Frisian
Wangdue PhodrangNorwegian
Wangdue PhodrangNorwegian Bokmål
ناحیه وانگدودودرنگPersian
Dystrykt Wangdi PhodrangPolish
Dystrykt Wangdue PhodrangPolish
Wangdü PʽodrangPolish
وانگدو پھودرانگ ولسوالۍPushto
Wangdue PhodrangRomanian
Вангди-ПходрангRussian
ᱣᱟᱝᱫᱩ ᱯᱷᱚᱫᱽᱨᱟᱝ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛSantali
Вангдуе ПходрангSerbian
වන්ග්ඩු පොඩ්රාන්ග් දිස්ත්රික්කයSinhala
Okraj Vangdi FodrangSlovenian
Okraj Vangdue PhodrangSlovenian
Wangdue PhodrangSwedish
வாங்கித்தேயு போட்ரங் மாவட்டம்Tamil
వాంగ్డ్యూ ఫోడ్రాంగ్ జిల్లాTelugu
เขตวังดีโพดรังThai
དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་གི་ས་ཁོངས།Tibetan
Wangdue PhodrangTumbuka
Wangdue PhodrangTurkish
Вангді-ПходрангUkrainian
وانگدو پھودرانگ ضلعUrdu
Quận Wangdue PhodrangVietnamese
Wangdue PhodrangWaray (Philippines)
ضلع وانگڈو فوڈرانگWestern Panjabi
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