Trashigang Dzong
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.Photo: Cfynn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trashigang and Kanglung.
Trashigang
Photo: CFynn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Kanglung
Town
Kanglung is a town in eastern Bhutan. It is located in Trashigang District and is the location of Sherubtse College, one of the Royal University of Bhutan's academic institutes. At the 2005 census, its population was 1,717. Kanglung is situated 6 km southwest of Trashigang Dzong.
Bartsham
Village
Bartsham Gewog is a gewog of Trashigang District, Bhutan. The community of Bartsham gewog depends on agriculture farming and the maximum source of income is from vegetable farming. Bartsham is situated 8 km northeast of Trashigang Dzong.
Trashigang Dzong
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: Dzong fortress in Trashigang, Bhutan
- Categories: dzong in Tibet, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Trashigang District, Bhutan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.33634° or 27° 20′ 11″ northLongitude
91.55135° or 91° 33′ 5″ eastOpen location code
7MVH8HP2+GGOpenStreetMap ID
way 150835044OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipWikidata ID
Q30623063
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In Other Languages
From Cameroon Pidgin to Spanish—“Trashigang Dzong” goes by many names.
- Cameroon Pidgin: “Trashigang Dzong”
- Czech: “Trashigang Dzong”
- Dutch: “Trashigang Dzong”
- Dzongkha: “བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་། Ι Trashigang Dzong”
- German: “Trashigang Dzong”
- Low German: “Trashigang Dzong”
- Maori: “Trashigang Dzong”
- Russian: “Трашиганг-дзонг”
- Samoan: “Trashigang Dzong”
- Spanish: “Dzong Trashigang”
- “Trashigang Dzong”
- “བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་།”
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