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Lhuntse
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Lhuentse is a town and the headquarters of the eponymous Lhuentse District in northeastern Bhutan. It is about 74 km from Mongar, 145 km from Trashigang and 452 km from the national capital Thimphu. Nearest airport is Yongphulla Airport 130 km away.

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Place details

Locality
Jang_Ngar
Region
ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་
Country
འབྲུག་ཡུལ།
Population
100

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Lhuentse
Settlement.image_skyline
Lhuentse Dzong.jpg
Settlement.imagesize
300px
Settlement.pushpin_map
Bhutan
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
300
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location in Bhutan
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
25px Bhutan
Settlement.subdivision_type1
District
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Lhuentse District
Settlement.unit_pref
Imperial
Settlement.population_blank1_title
Ethnicities
Settlement.population_blank2_title
Religions
Settlement.timezone
BTT
Settlement.utc_offset
+6
Settlement.blank_name
Climate
Settlement.blank_info
Cwb

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Country
Bhutan
Population
1935
Elevation
2323
Official website
www.lhuentse.gov.bt
Image
Lhuentse Dzong.jpg
Dialing code
4545
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Commons category
Lhuntse (town)
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • History
  • Development plans
  • Tourism
  • Administration
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Lhuentse is a town and the headquarters of the eponymous Lhuentse District in northeastern Bhutan. It is about 74 km from Mongar, 145 km from Trashigang and 452 km from the national capital Thimphu. Nearest airport is Yongphulla Airport 130 km away.

Lhuentse consists of eight Gewogs, namely Gangzur, Jaray, Kurtoed, Khoma, Maenbi, Maedtsho, Minjey, and Tshenkhar.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lhuntse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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