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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Cfynn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Cfynn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 2,970 residents
- Description: place in Mongar District, Bhutan
- Also known as: “Mongar Dzong”
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″ northLongitude
91.2375° or 91° 14′ 15″ eastPopulation
2,970Elevation
1,648 metres (5,407 feet)Open location code
7MVH76GQ+G2OpenStreetMap ID
node 1572584759OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1252514Wikidata ID
Q2582611
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Mongar” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Mongar”
- Bengali: “মঙ্গার”
- Cebuano: “Mongar Dzongkhag”
- Cebuano: “Mongar”
- Chechen: “Монгар”
- Chinese: “Méng jiā’ěr”
- Chinese: “孟加尔”
- Chinese: “蒙加尔”
- Chinese: “蒙加爾”
- Dutch: “Mongar”
- Estonian: “Mongar”
- French: “Mongar”
- Hungarian: “Mongar”
- Irish: “Mongar”
- Italian: “Mongar”
- Japanese: “モンガル”
- Luxembourgish: “Mongar”
- Luxembourgish: “Monggar”
- Macedonian: “Монгар”
- Persian: “مونگر (شهر)”
- Persian: “مونگر”
- Polish: “Mongar”
- Polish: “Monggar-dzong”
- Portuguese: “Mongar”
- Russian: “Монгар”
- Spanish: “Mongar”
- Tatar: “Монгар”
- Ukrainian: “Монгар”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mongar”. Photo: Cfynn, CC BY-SA 3.0.