Phobjikha

The Phobjikha Valley ཕོབ་སྦྱིས་ཁ spelled as Pho-sbis-kha, is a vast U-shaped valley in central Bhutan. The valley houses one of the impressive ancient Buddhist monasteries in Bhutan known as Gangteng Monastery of the Nyingma sect in central .
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  • Type: Valley with an elevation of 2,837 metres
  • Description: valley in Bhutan
  • Also known as: “Phobjikha Valley”, “Пхобжикха”, and “ཕོབ་སྦྱིས་དགའ་བའི་ཐང་”

Phobjikha

Latitude
27.4659° or 27° 27′ 57″ north
Longitude
90.1766° or 90° 10′ 36″ east
Elevation
2,837 metres (9,308 feet)
Open location code
7MVGF58G+9J
Geo­Names ID
11670040
Wiki­data ID
Q7186615
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Tamil—“Phobjikha” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “ফোবজিকা উপত্যকা”
  • Chinese: “伯茲卡”
  • Dzongkha: “ཕོབ་སྦྱིས་ཁ་ལུང་གཤོང་”
  • Dzongkha: “ཕོབ་སྦྱིས་ཁའི་ལུང་གཤོང་”
  • French: “Vallée de Phobjikha”
  • German: “Phobjikha-Tal”
  • Japanese: “フォブジカ谷”
  • Malayalam: “ഫോബ്‍ജിഖ വാലി”
  • Russian: “Пхобджика”
  • Slovenian: “Dolina Phobjikha”
  • Spanish: “Valle de Phobjika”
  • Tamil: “போப்ஜிகா பள்ளத்தாக்கு, பூடான்”
  • Tamil: “போப்ஜிகா பள்ளத்தாக்கு”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Phobjikha and Zhuga.

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