Thimphu

Thimphu is the capital of the Kingdom of , and with a population of around 115,000, it is the nation's largest city.
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  • Type: City with 98,700 residents
  • Description: capital of Bhutan
  • Also known as: Thimpago”, “Thimpu”, and “ཐིམ་ཕུ་

Places of Interest

Highlights include Buddha Dordenma statue.

Buddhist temple
Great Buddha Dordenma is a gigantic Shakyamuni Buddha statue in the mountains of celebrating the 60th anniversary of fourth king Jigme Singye Wangchuck.

Thimphu

Latitude
27.4391° or 27° 26′ 21″ north
Longitude
89.6723° or 89° 40′ 20″ east
Population
98,700
Elevation
2,320 metres (7,612 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BT THI
Open location code
7MVFCMQC+JW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1376501203
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1252416
Wiki­data ID
Q9270
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Thimphu” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: Thimphu
  • Afrikaans: Thimphu
  • Albanian: Thimphu
  • Amharic: ጢምጱ
  • Arabic: تيمفو
  • Aragonese: Thimphu
  • Armenian: Թհիմփհու
  • Arpitan: Thimphu
  • Assamese: থিম্ফু
  • Asturian: Thimphu
  • Awadhi: थीम्पु
  • Azerbaijani: Thimphu
  • Balinese: Thimphu
  • Bashkir: Тхимпху
  • Basque: Thimphu
  • Belarusian: Тхімпху
  • Bengali: থিম্পু
  • Bengali: থিম্ফু
  • Betawi: Timpu
  • Bosnian: Thimphu
  • Breton: Thimphu
  • Bulgarian: Тхимпху
  • Burmese: သင်းဖူမြို့
  • Catalan: Thimphu
  • Cebuano: Thimphu
  • Central Bikol: Thimphu
  • Central Kurdish: تیمفوو
  • Chechen: Тхимпху
  • Chinese: Thimphu
  • Chinese: 廷布
  • Chinese: 辛布
  • Chuvash: Тхимпху
  • Crimean Tatar: Thimphu
  • Croatian: Thimphu
  • Czech: Thimbu
  • Czech: Thimbú
  • Czech: Thimphu
  • Czech: Thimpu
  • Danish: Thimphu
  • Danish: Timphu
  • Dimli (individual language): Thimphu
  • Dutch: Thimphu
  • Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུག།
  • Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུུུུ
  • Egyptian Arabic: تيمفو
  • Esperanto: Timbuo
  • Estonian: Thimphu
  • Faroese: Thimphu
  • Fiji Hindi: Thimphu
  • Finnish: Thimphu
  • French: Thimphou
  • Galician: Thimphu
  • Georgian: თიმფუ
  • German: Thimphu
  • Greek: Θίμφου
  • Greek: Τιμπού (θερινή) Πουνάκα (χειμερινή)
  • Greek: Τιμπού
  • Gujarati: થિમ્ફુ
  • Haitian: Timfou
  • Hakka Chinese: Thimphu
  • Hebrew: טהימפהו
  • Hindi: थिम्फू
  • Hungarian: Timpu
  • Icelandic: Timfú
  • Ido: Thimphu
  • Iloko: Thimphu
  • Indonesian: Thimphu
  • Interlingua: Thimphu
  • Interlingue: Thimphu
  • Irish: Thimphu
  • Italian: Thimphu
  • Japanese: ティンプー
  • Kabyle: Timfu
  • Kannada: ಥಿಂಪು
  • Kannada: ಥಿಂಫು
  • Kazakh: Тхимпху
  • Khmer: ធីមប៊ូ
  • Kirghiz: Тхимпху
  • Korean: 팀부
  • Lao: ທິມພູ
  • Latin: Thimphu
  • Latvian: Thimphu
  • Lezghian: Тхимпху
  • Ligurian: Thimphu
  • Lithuanian: Timpu
  • Livvi: Thimphu
  • Lombard: Thimphu
  • Lower Sorbian: Thimphu
  • Luxembourgish: Thimphu
  • Macedonian: Тимбу
  • Maithili: थिम्पु
  • Malagasy: Thimphu
  • Malay: Thimphu
  • Malayalam: തിംഫു
  • Maltese: Thimphu
  • Marathi: थिंफू
  • Mazanderani: تیمفو
  • Min Dong Chinese: Thimphu
  • Min Nan Chinese: Thimphu
  • Minangkabau: Thimphu
  • Mingrelian: თიმფუ
  • Mongolian: Тхимпху
  • Moroccan Arabic: تيمفو
  • Nepali: थिम्पु
  • Nepali: थिम्पू
  • Northern Frisian: Thimphu
  • Northern Luri: تیمپو
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Thimphu
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Thimphu
  • Norwegian: Thimpu
  • Novial: Timpu
  • Nyanja: Thimphu
  • Occitan (post 1500): Thimphu
  • Oriya: ଥିମ୍ପୁ
  • Ossetian: Тхимпху
  • Panjabi: ਥਿੰਫੂ
  • Papiamento: Thimphu
  • Persian: تیمفو
  • Piemontese: Thimphu
  • Polish: Thimphu
  • Portuguese: Thimbu
  • Portuguese: Thimphu
  • Pushto: تیمفو
  • Romanian: Thimphu
  • Russian: Тхимпху
  • Samogitian: Tėmpu
  • Santali: ᱛᱷᱤᱢᱯᱩ
  • Sardinian: Thimphu
  • Scots: Thimphu
  • Scottish Gaelic: Thimphu
  • Serbian: Тимбу
  • Serbian: Тимпу
  • Serbian: ཐིམ་ཕུ་
  • Serbo-Croatian: Thimphu
  • Shona: Thimphu
  • Sicilian: Thimphu
  • Sindhi: ٿيمڦو
  • Sinhala: තිම්පු
  • Slovak: Thimbu
  • Slovak: Thimphu
  • Slovenian: Thimphu
  • Spanish: Thimphu
  • Spanish: Timbu
  • Swahili: Thimphu
  • Swedish: Thimphu
  • Tagalog: Thimphu
  • Tagalog: Timbu
  • Tajik: Тхимпху
  • Talysh: Timphu
  • Tamil: திம்பு
  • Tatar: Тхимпху
  • Telugu: థింపూ
  • Thai: ทิมพู
  • Tibetan: ཐིམ་གཞུང་།
  • Tibetan: ཐིམ་ཕུ།
  • Turkish: Thimphu
  • Twi: Timfuu
  • Udmurt: Тхимпху
  • Uighur: تىمپۇ
  • Ukrainian: Тхімпху
  • Upper Sorbian: Thimphu
  • Urdu: تھمپو
  • Uzbek: Thimphu
  • Venetian: Thimphu
  • Veps: Thimphu
  • Vietnamese: Thimphu
  • Volapük: Thimphu
  • Võro: Thimphu
  • Waray (Philippines): Thimphu
  • Welsh: Thimphu
  • Western Frisian: Thimphu
  • Western Frisian: Timpû
  • Western Panjabi: تھمپھو
  • Western Panjabi: ٹھمپھو
  • Wu Chinese: 廷布
  • Yoruba: Thimphu
  • Yue Chinese: 廷布
  • Zulu: i-Thimphu
  • Thimphu
  • Timbu
  • Timpu

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