Trongsa
Trongsa, previously Tongsa, is a Thromde or town, and the capital of Trongsa District in central Bhutan. 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.
- Town with about 2,700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 2,070 metres (6,790 feet)
- …is also known as “Tongsa Dzong”
- Description: city
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Latitude
27.5016° or 27° 30′ 6″ north
Longitude
90.5076° or 90° 30′ 27″ east
Open location code
7MVGGG25+J2
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Trongsa” goes by many names.
ትሮንግሳAmharic
ترونغساArabic
TrongsaAsturian
TrongsaAzerbaijani
ট্রোংসাBengali
TrongsaCebuano
ТронгсаChechen
同萨Chinese
ტრონგსაGeorgian
TrongsaHausa
טונגסהHebrew
ट्रोंगसाHindi
TrongsaIndonesian
TongsaItalian
TrongsaItalian
トロンサJapanese
トンサJapanese
TrongsaJavanese
ТронгсаKazakh
ТронгсаKirghiz
TrongsaLithuanian
TrongsaMalay
ტონგსაMingrelian
ტრონგსაMingrelian
TrongsaOromo
ਟ੍ਰੋਂਗਸਾPanjabi
ترونگساPersian
تونگساPersian
TongsaPolish
TrongsaPolish
ترونګساPushto
TongsaRomanian
ТонгсаRussian
ТронгсаRussian
TrongsaSlovenian
TrongsaSomali
TrongsaSwahili
TrongsaSwedish
ТронгсаTajik
ТронгсаTatar
จรงซาThai
ตงซาThai
ཀྲོང་གསར་རྫོང་ཁགTibetan
ཀྲོང་གསར།Tibetan
TrongsaTurkish
ТонгсаUkrainian
ТронгсаUkrainian
ترونگساUrdu
ٹرونگساUrdu
TrongsaUzbek
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