Wangdue Phodrang District

Wangdue Phodrang District is a Thromde and dzongkhag of central . 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.
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  • Type: State with 42,200 residents
  • Description: district of Bhutan
  • Also known as: “BT-24”, “Dystrykt Wangdi Phodrang”, “Dzongkhag Wangdue Phodrang”, “Wangdi Phodrang”, “Wangdi Phodrang Dzongkhag”, “Wangdü Phodrang”, “Вангди Пходранг”, “དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག་”, “왕두에 포드랑 현”, “왕디 포드랑 현”, and “왕디포드랑 현”

Wangdue Phodrang District

Latitude
27.5022° or 27° 30′ 8″ north
Longitude
90.0942° or 90° 5′ 39″ east
Population
42,200
Elevation
3,176 metres (10,420 feet)
Open location code
7MVGG32V+VM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4353339390
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1337295
Wiki­data ID
Q728933
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Wangdue Phodrang District” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة وانغدو فودرانغ”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Bengali: “ওয়াংদুয়ে ফোদ্রাং জেলা”
  • Bulgarian: “Вангдуе Пходранг”
  • Catalan: “Districte de Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Cebuano: “Wangdue Phodrang Dzongkhag”
  • Chinese: “旺杜波德朗宗”
  • Danish: “Wangdue Phodrang District”
  • Dutch: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Dzongkha: “དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Ŭangdue Podrang”
  • Estonian: “Wangdue Phodrangi ringkond”
  • Finnish: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • French: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Galician: “Distrito de Wangdue Phodrang”
  • German: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Greek: “Γουάνγκντουε Φόντρανγκ”
  • Gujarati: “વાંગડુ ફોડ્રાંગ જિલ્લો”
  • Hindi: “वांगद्यू फोद्रांग जिला”
  • Hungarian: “Wangdue Phodrang körzet”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Italian: “distretto di Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Japanese: “ワンデ・ポドラン”
  • Japanese: “ワンデュ・ポダン県”
  • Kannada: “ವಾಂಗ್ಡು ಫೊಡ್ರಾಂಗ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Korean: “왕두에포드랑현”
  • Latvian: “Vangdi-Podrangas distrikts”
  • Lithuanian: “Vangde Podrango apskritis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Malay: “Wangdue Phodrang District”
  • Marathi: “वांगदु फोडरंग जिल्हा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wangdue Phodrang Koān”
  • Minangkabau: “Distrik Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Nepali: “वाङ्डु फोड्रङ जिल्ला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Norwegian: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Persian: “ناحیه وانگدودودرنگ”
  • Polish: “Dystrykt Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Polish: “Wangdü Pʽodrang”
  • Portuguese: “Uandu Podrangue”
  • Portuguese: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Pushto: “وانگدو پھودرانگ ولسوالۍ”
  • Romanian: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Russian: “Вангди-Пходранг”
  • Santali: “ᱣᱟᱝᱫᱩ ᱯᱷᱚᱫᱽᱨᱟᱝ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Serbian: “Вангдуе Пходранг”
  • Sinhala: “වන්ග්ඩු පොඩ්රාන්ග් දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovenian: “Okraj Vangdi Fodrang”
  • Slovenian: “Okraj Vangdue Phodrang”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Swedish: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Tamil: “வாங்கித்தேயு போட்ரங் மாவட்டம்”
  • Telugu: “వాంగ్డ్యూ ఫోడ్రాంగ్ జిల్లా”
  • Thai: “เขตวังดีโพดรัง”
  • Tibetan: “དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་གི་ས་ཁོངས།”
  • Tumbuka: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Turkish: “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Ukrainian: “Вангді-Пходранг”
  • Urdu: “وانگدو پھودرانگ ضلع”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wangdue Phodrang”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع وانگڈو فوڈرانگ”

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