Trashigang
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Place details
- Locality
- བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་།
- Region
- བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་
- Country
- འབྲུག་ཡུལ།
- Population
- 872
- Timezone
- Asia/Thimphu
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Key facts
- Settlement.timezone
- BTT
- Settlement.official_name
- Trashigang
- Settlement.native_name
- 180px
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Trashigang town-Bhutan-2008-01-02.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Main street, Trashigang, Bhutan
- 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_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Bhutan
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Trashigang District
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2017
- Settlement.population_total
- 3,037
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +6
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Trashigang (), or Tashigang, meaning "fortress of auspicious mount," is a town in eastern Bhutan and the district capital of the Trashigang Dzongkhag (district).
The town lies to the east side of the valley above the Drangme Chhu river just south of where it is joined by the Gamri River. Trashigang is the eastern terminus of the Lateral Road, Bhutan's main highway leading to Phuntsholing in the southwest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trashigang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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