Trashigang
Trashigang is an administrative town of 4,500 people in Eastern Bhutan. The traditional architecture and narrow streets give the town a quaint and snug feel, not unlike an Italian or Cornish fishing village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 872 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Benkar”, “Tashi Gang Dzong”, and “Tashigang”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Trashigang Dzong.
Trashigang Dzong
Buddhist temple
Photo: Cfynn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trashigang Dzong is one of the largest dzong fortresses in Bhutan, located in Trashigang in Trashigang District of Bhutan. The fortress was built in 1659 to defend against Tibetan invasions.
Trashigang
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Trashigang District, Eastern Bhutan, Bhutan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.3313° or 27° 19′ 53″ northLongitude
91.5521° or 91° 33′ 7″ eastPopulation
872Elevation
1,174 metres (3,852 feet)IATA airport code
YONOpen location code
7MVH8HJ2+GROpenStreetMap ID
node 316753051OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Trashigang” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Trashigang”
- Bengali: “ট্রাশিগাং”
- Catalan: “Trashigang”
- Cebuano: “Trashigang”
- Chechen: “Трашиганг”
- Chinese: “塔希冈”
- Chinese: “塔希冈宗”
- Chinese: “塔希岡”
- Chinese: “扎西冈”
- Chinese: “扎西岗”
- Chinese: “扎西崗”
- Danish: “Trashigang”
- Dutch: “Trashigang”
- Dzongkha: “བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་།”
- Dzongkha: “བཀྲིས་སྒང་”
- Esperanto: “Traŝigango”
- Estonian: “Trashigang”
- French: “Trashigang”
- German: “Trashigang”
- Hebrew: “טשיגנג”
- Hungarian: “Trasigang”
- Italian: “Trashigang”
- Japanese: “タシガン”
- Japanese: “ツァシガン”
- Japanese: “トラシガン”
- Korean: “타시강”
- Korean: “트라시강”
- Lithuanian: “Trašigangas”
- Luxembourgish: “Trashigang”
- Mingrelian: “ტაშიგანგი”
- Mingrelian: “ტრაშიგანგი”
- Persian: “تراشیگانگ”
- Polish: “Trashigang”
- Polish: “Traszigang”
- Portuguese: “Trashigang”
- Romanian: “Tashigang”
- Russian: “Ташиганг”
- Russian: “Трашиганг”
- Spanish: “Trashigang”
- Swedish: “Trashigang”
- Tatar: “Трашиганг”
- Ukrainian: “Трашіганг”
- Urdu: “تراشیگانگ”
- Yue Chinese: “扎西崗”
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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 “Trashigang”. Photo: CFynn, CC BY-SA 4.0.