Lhuentse
Lhuentse is a town and the headquarters of the eponymous Lhuentse District in northeastern Bhutan. It is about 74 km from Mongar, 145 km from Trashigang and 452 km from the national capital Thimphu.- Type: Town with 1,940 residents
- Description: place in Lhuentse District, Bhutan
- Also known as: “Lenlung”, “Lhuntse”, “Lhuntsi Dzong”, “Lingshi Dzong”, and “ལྷུན་རྩེ”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lhuntse Dzong.
Lhuntse Dzong
Castle
Lhuentse Dzong is a dzong and Buddhist monastery in Lhuentse District in eastern Bhutan. It lies on the eastern side of the Kuri Chhu and is perched on a spur at the end of a narrow valley.
Lhuentse
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lhuntse District, Eastern Bhutan, Bhutan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.6645° or 27° 39′ 52″ north
Longitude
91.1883° or 91° 11′ 18″ east
Population
1,940
Elevation
1,403 metres (4,603 feet)
Open location code
7MVHM57Q+R8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Lhuentse” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ልሁዌንፆ”
- Arabic: “لهوينتسي”
- Azerbaijani: “Lhuentse”
- Bengali: “ল্হুয়েনসে”
- Chechen: “Лхунце”
- Chinese: “倫奇”
- Dutch: “Lhuntse”
- Estonian: “Lhuentse”
- French: “Lhuentse”
- German: “Lhuentse”
- Hausa: “Lhuentse”
- Hindi: “ल्हुएंत्से”
- Indonesian: “Lhuentse”
- Irish: “Lhuntse”
- Italian: “Lhuntse”
- Italian: “Lhuntshi”
- Japanese: “ルェンツェ”
- Japanese: “ルンツェ”
- Javanese: “Lhuentse”
- Kazakh: “Лхуэнце”
- Kirghiz: “Лхуэнце”
- Macedonian: “Лунце”
- Malay: “Lhuentse”
- Mingrelian: “ლჰუნცე”
- Oromo: “Lhuentse”
- Panjabi: “ਲ੍ਹਉਂਤਸੇ”
- Persian: “لهوئنتسه”
- Persian: “لهونتسه”
- Persian: “لونتشی”
- Polish: “Lhünce”
- Polish: “Lhuntse”
- Portuguese: “Lhuentse”
- Pushto: “لهوینتسې”
- Romanian: “Lhuntshi”
- Russian: “Лхунце”
- Russian: “Лхуэнце”
- Slovak: “Lhuntse”
- Somali: “Lhuentse”
- Spanish: “Lhuentse”
- Spanish: “Lhuntse”
- Swahili: “Lhuentse”
- Tajik: “Лхуэнце”
- Tatar: “Лхунце”
- Tatar: “Лхуэнце”
- Turkish: “Lhuentse”
- Urdu: “لھونٹسے”
- Urdu: “لھوینتسے”
- Uzbek: “Lhuentse”
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