Bhutan
Central Bhutan
Trongsa District

Trongsa

Trongsa, previously Tongsa, is a Thromde or town, and the capital of in central . The name means "new village" in Dzongkha. The first temple was built in 1543 by the Drukpa lama Ngagi Wangchuck, who was the great-grandfather of Ngawang Namgyal, Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the unifier of Bhutan.
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  • Type: Town with 2,700 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “Tongsa Dzong”

Trongsa

Latitude
27.5016° or 27° 30′ 6″ north
Longitude
90.5076° or 90° 30′ 27″ east
Population
2,700
Elevation
2,108 metres (6,916 feet)
Open location code
7MVGGG25+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11126451907
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1252408
Wiki­data ID
Q1019534
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Trongsa” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Trongsa”
  • Cebuano: “Trongsa”
  • Chechen: “Тронгса”
  • Chinese: “同萨”
  • Chinese: “洞萨”
  • Chinese: “通萨”
  • Chinese: “通薩”
  • Dutch: “Trongsa”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀྲོང་གསར་”
  • Esperanto: “Trongso”
  • Estonian: “Trongsa”
  • French: “Tongsa”
  • Georgian: “ტრონგსა”
  • German: “Tongsa”
  • German: “Trongsa”
  • Hebrew: “טונגסה”
  • Italian: “Tongsa”
  • Italian: “Trongsa”
  • Japanese: “トンサ”
  • Lithuanian: “Trongsa”
  • Mingrelian: “ტონგსა”
  • Mingrelian: “ტრონგსა”
  • Persian: “ترونگسا”
  • Persian: “تونگسا”
  • Polish: “Tongsa”
  • Polish: “Trongsa”
  • Portuguese: “Trongsa”
  • Romanian: “Tongsa”
  • Russian: “Тонгса”
  • Russian: “Тронгса”
  • Slovenian: “Trongsa”
  • Spanish: “Trongsa”
  • Swedish: “Trongsa”
  • Tatar: “Тронгса”
  • Thai: “จรงซา”
  • Thai: “ตงซา”
  • Tibetan: “ཀྲོང་གསར་རྫོང་ཁག”
  • Tibetan: “ཀྲོང་གསར།”
  • Ukrainian: “Тонгса”
  • Ukrainian: “Тронгса”
  • Urdu: “ترونگسا”

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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 Wikipedia page “Trongsa”. Photo: CFynn, CC BY-SA 4.0.