Arunachal Pradesh
Tawang
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Tawang

Tawang is a town in the in the far west of the state of in North-Eastern India. The second-largest Buddhist monastery in the world is here, and was built in 1681.
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  • Type: City with 11,000 residents
  • Description: town in Arunachal Pradesh, India
  • Also known as: “Mön Tawang”, “T’a-wan”, “Tang Shyo”, “Tawang Shyo”, “Tawang Town”, and “Towang”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tawang Monastery.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Donvikro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Buddhist monastery located in Tawang, , India. It is the largest monastery in the country. It is situated in the valley of the Tawang Chu, in close proximity to the Tibet and Bhutanese border.

Tawang

Latitude
27.5879° or 27° 35′ 17″ north
Longitude
91.8637° or 91° 51′ 49″ east
Population
11,000
Elevation
2,304 metres (7,559 feet)
Open location code
7MVHHVQ7+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 342097760
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1254832
Wiki­data ID
Q1006270
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tawang” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تاوانج”
  • Assamese: “টাৱাং”
  • Bengali: “তওয়াং”
  • Bishnupriya: “তাওয়াং”
  • Cebuano: “Tawang”
  • Chinese: “Tawang”
  • Chinese: “达旺”
  • Chinese: “达旺城”
  • Chinese: “达旺镇”
  • Chinese: “達旺城”
  • Chinese: “達旺鎮”
  • Dutch: “Tawang”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاوانج”
  • Finnish: “Tawang”
  • French: “Tawang”
  • German: “Tawang”
  • Greek: “Ταουάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “તવાંગ”
  • Hebrew: “טוואנג”
  • Hindi: “तवांग”
  • Indonesian: “Tawang”
  • Irish: “Tawang”
  • Italian: “Tawang”
  • Japanese: “タワン”
  • Japanese: “タワング・タウン”
  • Japanese: “タワン鎮”
  • Kannada: “ತವಾಂ”
  • Kannada: “ತವಾಂಗ್ ಟೌನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “تاوانج”
  • Korean: “타왕”
  • Lithuanian: “Tavangas”
  • Malay: “Tawang, India”
  • Marathi: “तवांग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tawang”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tawang”
  • Oriya: “ତୱାଙ୍ଗ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਵਾਂਗ”
  • Persian: “تاوانگ”
  • Polish: “Tawang”
  • Portuguese: “Tawang Town”
  • Romanian: “Tawang”
  • Russian: “Таванг”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱚᱣᱟᱝ”
  • Spanish: “Tawang”
  • Swedish: “Tawang”
  • Tamil: “டவாங் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “தவாங் டவுன்”
  • Tamil: “தவாங்”
  • Telugu: “తవాంగ్ పట్టణం”
  • Telugu: “తవాంగ్”
  • Thai: “ตาวัง”
  • Ukrainian: “Таванг”
  • Urdu: “تاوانج”
  • Urdu: “ٹوانگ”
  • Vietnamese: “Tawang”
  • Western Panjabi: “توانگ”

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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 “Tawang”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.