Motithang is a north-western suburb of
Thimphu
Thimphu (; dz, ཐིམ་ཕུག ) is the 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 capital city ...
,
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 mountainou ...
. The
Chubachu River divides the district from
Kawajangsa further north and
Chubachu district lies to the east.
Meaning "the meadow of pearls", the area only developed as a residential area in the 1980s, following the initial establishment of the
Motithang Hotel in 1974, on the occasion of the coronation of
Jigme Singye Wangchuck.
At the time, the hotel was located in the middle of forest, separated from the city by farmland but today this area has grown up with houses and gardens.
Aside from the Motithang Hotel, the district contains several notable state guest houses such as the
Kungacholing and
Lhundupling, Rapten Apartments and the
Amankora Thimphu.
It also contains the National Commission for Cultural Affairs, a
UNICEF
UNICEF (), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to ...
station and several grocery stores, including the Lhatshog supermarket.
Schools include
Motithang Higher Secondary School and Jigme Namgyal School.
There is also a notable
takin
The takin (''Budorcas taxicolor''; ), also called cattle chamois or gnu goat, is a large species of ungulate of the subfamily Caprinae found in the eastern Himalayas. It includes four subspecies: the Mishmi takin (''B. t. taxicolor''), the g ...
wildlife sanctuary in the district, named
Motithang Takin Preserve.
References
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