Mongar (

Dzongkha Dzongkha (; ) is a Sino-Tibetan language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. It is written using the Tibetan script. The word means "the language of the fortress", from ' "fortress" and ' "language". , Dzongkha had 171,080 n ...

: མོང་སྒར) is a town and the seat of

Mongar District Mongar District ( Dzongkha: མོང་སྒར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Mong-sgar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Mongar is the fastest-developing dzongkhag in eastern Bhutan. A regional ...

in eastern

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

. it had a population of 3502. Mongar is on the road from

Thimphu Thimphu (; dz, ཐིམ་ཕུག ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Bhutan. It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's ''dzongkhags'', the Thimphu District. The ancient ...

Trashigang Trashigang ( dz, བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་།), 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 ...

. It is one of the oldest educational hubs of the country. It has a regional hospital and a good standard hotel, among other facilities. The important

Yagang Lhakhang The Yagang Lhakhang, located in a village on the outskirts of Mongar Bhutan, was built in the 16th century by Sangdag, the youngest son of Pema Lingpa, a famous tertön. This temple is renowned for its collection of religious treasures, masks, ...

monastery is on the outskirts of the town. The post code for Mongar post office is 43001.Bhutan Post post codes list http://www.bhutanpost.bt/documents/postcodes.pdf

Climate

Mongar features a dry-winter

humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between latitudes 25° and 40° ...

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''Cwa'').

References

External links

Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Bhutan {{Bhutan-geo-stub