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Trongsa
Sign in to saveTrongsa, previously Tongsa (, ), is a Thromde or town, and the capital of Trongsa District in central Bhutan. The name means "new village" in Dzongkha. The first temple was built in 1543 by the Drukpa lama Ngagi Wangchuck, who was the great-grandfather of Ngawang Namgyal, Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the unifier of Bhutan.
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Place details
- Locality
- Bagochen Boolingpang Ueling
- Region
- ཀྲོང་གསར་རྫོང་ཁག་
- Country
- འབྲུག་ཡུལ།
- Population
- 2,805
- Timezone
- Asia/Thimphu
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Trongsa
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Dzong in Trongsa2.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Trongsa
- 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_name1
- Trongsa District
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
- Settlement.timezone
- BTT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Bhutan
- Located in
- Trongsa District
- Population
- 2695
- Elevation
- 2070
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Capital of
- Trongsa District
- Image
- Dzong in Trongsa2.jpg
- Dialing code
- 352
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- Commons category
- Trongsa (town)
- inception
- 1644-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Trongsa Dzong
- Climate
- See also
- References
Trongsa, previously Tongsa (, ), is a Thromde or town, and the capital of Trongsa District in central Bhutan. The name means "new village" in Dzongkha. The first temple was built in 1543 by the Drukpa lama Ngagi Wangchuck, who was the great-grandfather of Ngawang Namgyal, Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the unifier of Bhutan.
==Trongsa Dzong==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trongsa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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