Thimphu

Thimphu is the capital of the Kingdom of , and with a population of around 141,000, it is the nation's largest city.
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  • City with 98,700 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 2,320 metres (7,612 feet)
  • Description: capital of Bhutan
  • Also known as
    “Thimpago”
    “Thimpu”
    “ཐིམ་ཕུ་”
    “ཐིམ་ཕུག”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Buddha Dordenma statue and 619 Pelki Lam SW,Chang Jalu,Thimphu.
Jyotishkardey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Great Buddha Dordenma is a gigantic Shakyamuni Buddha…
Pelkhil School is a private co-educational school…

Thimphu

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Latitude
27.4391° or 27° 26′ 21″ north
Longitude
89.6723° or 89° 40′ 20″ east
UN/LOCODE
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: “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”
  • Gorontalo: “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”
  • Magahi: “थिम्पू”
  • Magahi: “थिम्फू”
  • 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”
  • Samogitian: “Timpu”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱷᱤᱢᱯᱩ”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱷᱤᱢᱯᱷᱩ”
  • 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”
  • Uzbek: “Tximpxu”
  • 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”

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