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Key facts
- Country
- Bhutan
- Headquarters
- Trashiyangtse
- Total
- 1,438 km (555 sq mi)
- Density
- 12.0/km (31.2/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+6 ( BTT )
- Hdi 2019
- 0.588 , medium · 18th of 20
- Website
- www .trashiyangtse .gov .bt
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Bhutan
- Country
- Bhutan
- Located in
- Bhutan
- Contains
- Yalang Gewog
- Capital
- Trashiyangtse
- Population
- 17300
- Area
- 1459
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Official website
- www.bhutan.gov.bt/government/dzongkhags.php?dz_id=35
- Image
- Trashiyangtse.jpg
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- language used
- Tshangla
- topic's main category
- Category:Trashiyangtse District
- Commons category
- Trashiyangtse District
- male population
- 8719
- female population
- 8581
- urban population
- 3547
- rural population
- 13753
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Encyclopedic overview
27°40′N 91°25′E / 27.667°N 91.417°E / 27.667; 91.417
Trashiyangtse District (Dzongkha: བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག།, romanized: bkra shis g.yang rtse rdzong khag) is one of the twenty dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It was created in 1992 when Trashiyangtse district was split off from Trashigang District. Trashiyangtse covers an area of 1,437.9 square kilometres (555.2 sq mi). At an elevation of 1750–1880 m, Trashi yangtse dzongkhag is rich of culture filled with sacred places blessed by Guru Rimpoche and dwelled by Yangtseps, Tshanglas, Bramis from Tawang, Khengpas from Zhemgang and Kurtoeps from Lhuentse.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trashiyangtse District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.