Gasa District
Gasa District is one of the 20 dzongkhags comprising Bhutan. The capital of Gasa District is Gasa Dzong near Gasa. It is located in the far north of the county and spans the Middle and High regions of the Tibetan Himalayas.- Type: State with 3,950 residents
- Description: district of Bhutan
- Also known as: “Gasa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gasa Dzong.
Gasa Dzong
Building
Photo: Cfynn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gasa Dzong or Gasa Tashi Thongmön Dzong near Gasa is the administrative center of Gasa Dzongkhag in the northwestern region of Bhutan. The Dzong was built in the 17th century by Tenzin Drukdra the second Druk Desi over the site of a meditation place established by Drubthob Terkungpa in the 13th century.
Gasa District
- Categories: district of Bhutan and locality
- Location: Gasa District, Bhutan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.9191° or 27° 55′ 9″ northLongitude
89.7875° or 89° 47′ 15″ eastPopulation
3,950Open location code
7MVFWQ9Q+J2OpenStreetMap ID
node 4353314874OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateWikidata ID
Q578294
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Gasa District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة غاسا”
- Asturian: “distritu de Gasa”
- Asturian: “Gasa”
- Bengali: “গাসা জেলা”
- Bulgarian: “Гаса”
- Catalan: “Districte de Gasa”
- Cebuano: “Gasa”
- Chinese: “Gasa Koān”
- Chinese: “加萨宗”
- Danish: “Gasa”
- Dutch: “Gasa”
- Dzongkha: “མགར་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་”
- Dzongkha: “མགར་ས་རྫོང་ཁག”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Gasa”
- Estonian: “Gasa ringkond”
- Finnish: “Gasa”
- French: “Gasa”
- Galician: “Distrito de Gasa”
- German: “Gasa”
- Greek: “Γκάσα”
- Gujarati: “ગાસા જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “गासा जिला”
- Hungarian: “Gasa körzet”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Gasa”
- Italian: “distretto di Gasa”
- Italian: “Distretto di Gasa”
- Japanese: “ガサ”
- Japanese: “ガサ県”
- Kannada: “ಗಾಸಾ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “가사현”
- Latvian: “Gasas distrikts”
- Lithuanian: “Gasos rajonas”
- Malay: “Gasa District”
- Marathi: “गसा जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gasa Koān”
- Nepali: “गासा जिल्ला”
- Northern Frisian: “Gasa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gasa”
- Norwegian: “Gasa”
- Persian: “استان گاسا”
- Persian: “ناحیه گاسا”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Gasa”
- Polish: “Gasa”
- Portuguese: “Gasa”
- Portuguese: “Gassa”
- Pushto: “گاسا ولسوالۍ”
- Romanian: “Gasa”
- Russian: “Гаса”
- Santali: “ᱜᱟᱥᱟ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Sinhala: “ගසා දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Gasa”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Gasa”
- Swedish: “Gasa”
- Tamil: “காசா மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “గాసా జిల్లా”
- Thai: “เขตกาซา”
- Tibetan: “Gasa District”
- Tibetan: “མགར་ས་གི་ས་ཁོངས།”
- Turkish: “Gasa District”
- Ukrainian: “Гаса”
- Urdu: “گاسا ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Gasa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gasa”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع گاسا”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع گاسہ”
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