Phuentsholing

Phuentsholing, the second largest town in , is on the border, next to the town of .
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  • Type: Town with 27,700 residents
  • Description: border town in Southern Bhutan
  • Also known as: Phunchholing”, “Phuntsholing”, and “Phuntsoling
  • Neighbors:

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jaigaon.

is a city in the Dooars of , . It is a trading post for cross-border business with . Unless you are planning to enter Bhutan or have an interest in construction material and fake branded clothes, there is no reason to visit .

Phuentsholing

Latitude
26.864° or 26° 51′ 50″ north
Longitude
89.3837° or 89° 23′ 1″ east
Population
27,700
Elevation
330 metres (1,083 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BT PHU
Open location code
7MRFV97M+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299411935
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1252484
Wiki­data ID
Q856162
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Phuentsholing” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Phuntsholing
  • Belarusian: Пхунчолінг
  • Bengali: ফুন্টসলিং
  • Catalan: Phuentsholing
  • Catalan: Phuntsholing
  • Cebuano: Phuentsholing
  • Chechen: Пхунчхолинг
  • Chinese: péng cuò lín
  • Chinese: 彭措林
  • Czech: Phuentšoling
  • Czech: Phuntsholing
  • Danish: Phuntsholing
  • Dutch: Phuentsholing
  • Dutch: Phuntsholing
  • Dzongkha: ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་
  • Esperanto: Phuentŝolingo
  • Estonian: Phuentsholing
  • Finnish: Phuntsholing
  • French: Phuentsholing
  • French: Phuntsholing
  • German: Phuentsholing
  • German: Phuntsholing
  • Greek: Φάντσολινγκ
  • Hebrew: פונצ’ולינג
  • Hungarian: Puncoling
  • Indonesian: Phuntsholing
  • Italian: Phuentsholing
  • Japanese: プンツォリン
  • Korean: 푼촐링
  • Lithuanian: Punčolingas
  • Malayalam: ഫുണ്ട്ഷോലിങ്
  • Mingrelian: ფუნჩოლინგი
  • Nepali: फुन्छोलिंग
  • Nepali: फुन्छोलिङ
  • Nepali: फुन्छोलिङ्ग
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Phuentsholing
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Phuntsholing
  • Norwegian: Phuntsholing
  • Persian: پونت‌شولینگ
  • Polish: Phuentsholing
  • Polish: Phuntsholing
  • Portuguese: Phuentsholing
  • Portuguese: Phuntsholing
  • Romanian: Phuentsholing
  • Romanian: Phuntsholing
  • Russian: Пхунчолинг
  • Russian: Пхунчонлинг
  • Russian: Пхунчхолинг
  • Santali: ᱯᱷᱩᱱᱴᱥᱚᱞᱤᱝ
  • Serbian: Пхунчолинг
  • Spanish: Phuntsholing
  • Swedish: Phuentsholing
  • Swedish: Phuntsholing
  • Tatar: Пхунчхолинг
  • Turkish: Phuntsholing
  • Ukrainian: Пхуенчхолінґ
  • Ukrainian: Пхунчолінг
  • Urdu: پھونتشولنگ

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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 “Phuentsholing”. Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.