Trashiyangtse
Trashi Yangtse, located in the eastern part of Bhutan, is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. It is further divided into eight gewogs. It houses the Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary on the eastern tri-junction of Bhutan-India-China and to the east lies Tawang in India. The nearest airport is Yongphulla Airport 130 km away.
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- Locality
- Li-chen
- Region
- བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་
- Country
- འབྲུག་ཡུལ།
- Population
- 3,025
- Timezone
- Asia/Thimphu
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Trashi Yangtse, located in the eastern part of Bhutan, is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. It is further divided into eight gewogs. It houses the Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary on the eastern tri-junction of Bhutan-India-China and to the east lies Tawang in India. The nearest airport is Yongphulla Airport 130 km away.
Its population in 2005 was 2735 and as of 2022. Located in close proximity to Chorten Kora stupa which lies to the west, a dzong was inaugurated in Trashiyangste in 1997. It contains a major art school, The School of 13 Traditional Arts, also known as Rigney School, which is a sister school of the Zorig Chosum School of Traditional Arts in Thimphu, and teaches six forms of art; painting, pottery, wood sculpture, wood-turning, lacquer-work and embroidery.