Samtse
Sign in to saveSamtse is a town and the headquarters of the Samtse District in Bhutan. The population of the town was 5,396 as of 2017. The population of the Samtse district was 60,100 at the 2005 census.
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Place details
- Locality
- Sa-Tshamchhu Tshongdzom
- Region
- བསམ་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་
- Country
- འབྲུག་ཡུལ།
- Population
- 5,396
- Timezone
- Asia/Thimphu
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Samtse
- Settlement.native_name
- ་བསམ་རྩེ
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Samtse Post Office 2009 DSC03716 485 kb.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Post office in Samtse
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Bhutan
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- top
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Bhutan
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Samtse
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2017
- Settlement.population_total
- 5396
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
- Settlement.timezone
- BTT
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Country
- Bhutan
- Located in
- Samtse District
- Population
- 4981
- Elevation
- 417
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Capital of
- Samtse District
- Image
- Samtse Post Office 2009 DSC03716 485 kb.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Climate
- References
Samtse is a town and the headquarters of the Samtse District in Bhutan. The population of the town was 5,396 as of 2017. The population of the Samtse district was 60,100 at the 2005 census.
Samtse is close to the Bhutan–India border. Across the border is the Indian town of Chamurchi. The nearest railway station is Banarhat railway station which lies around 18 kilometres away by road in Indian State of West Bengal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samtse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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