Mongar
Mongar town is the administrative head of Mongar district in Eastern Bhutan. Perched on a hill, the old bazaar area has been expanded extensively, making the town one of the region's largest settlements.- Type: Town with 2,970 residents
- Description: place in Mongar District, Bhutan
- Also known as: “Mongar Dzong”, “Monggar”, “མོང་སྒར”, and “孟加尔”
Mongar
- Categories: city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Mongar District, Eastern Bhutan, Bhutan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.2763° or 27° 16′ 35″ north
Longitude
91.2375° or 91° 14′ 15″ east
Population
2,970
Elevation
1,648 metres (5,407 feet)
Open location code
7MVH76GQ+G2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Mongar” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሞንጋር”
- Arabic: “مونغار”
- Asturian: “Mongar”
- Azerbaijani: “Mongar”
- Bengali: “মঙ্গার”
- Bengali: “মোংগার”
- Cebuano: “Mongar Dzongkhag”
- Cebuano: “Mongar”
- Chechen: “Монгар”
- Chinese: “Méng jiā’ěr”
- Chinese: “蒙加尔”
- Chinese: “蒙加爾”
- Dutch: “Mongar”
- Estonian: “Mongar”
- French: “Mongar”
- German: “Mongar”
- Hausa: “Mongar”
- Hindi: “मोंगार”
- Hungarian: “Mongar”
- Indonesian: “Mongar”
- Irish: “Mongar”
- Italian: “Mongar”
- Japanese: “モンガル”
- Javanese: “Mongar”
- Kazakh: “Монгар”
- Kirghiz: “Монгар”
- Luxembourgish: “Mongar”
- Macedonian: “Монгар”
- Malay: “Mongar”
- Oromo: “Mongar”
- Panjabi: “ਮੋਂਗਾਰ”
- Persian: “مونگار”
- Persian: “مونگر (شهر)”
- Persian: “مونگر”
- Polish: “Mongar”
- Polish: “Monggar-dzong”
- Portuguese: “Mongar”
- Pushto: “مونګار”
- Russian: “Монгар”
- Somali: “Mongar”
- Spanish: “Mongar”
- Swahili: “Mongar”
- Tajik: “Монгар”
- Tatar: “Монгар”
- Turkish: “Mongar”
- Ukrainian: “Монгар”
- Urdu: “مونگار”
- Uzbek: “Mongar”
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