Thimphu
Thimphu is the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan, and with a population of around 115,000, it is the nation's largest city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 98,700 residents
- Description: capital of Bhutan
- Also known as: “Thimpago”, “Thimpu”, and “ཐིམ་ཕུ་”
Photo: Cfynn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Buddha Dordenma statue.
Buddha Dordenma statue
Buddhist temple
Photo: Jyotishkardey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Great Buddha Dordenma is a gigantic Shakyamuni Buddha statue in the mountains of Bhutan celebrating the 60th anniversary of fourth king Jigme Singye Wangchuck.
Thimphu
- Categories: big city, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Thimphu District, Western Bhutan, Bhutan, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.4391° or 27° 26′ 21″ northLongitude
89.6723° or 89° 40′ 20″ eastPopulation
98,700Elevation
2,320 metres (7,612 feet)United Nations Location Code
BT THIOpen location code
7MVFCMQC+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1376501203OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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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