Naktsang is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Haa District
Haa District ( Dzongkha: ཧཱ་; Wylie: ''Haa''; alternative spellings include "Ha") is one of the 20 dzongkhag or districts comprising Bhutan. An alternative name for the district is "Hidden-Land Rice Valley." It the second least-populate ...
in southwestern
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 ...
. (Do not confuse with
Naktsang Town in
Shentsa County
Xainza County, also Shantsa, Shentsa, (; ) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. In 1999 the county had a population of 16,190.
Geography
The capital lies at Naktsang Town or Xainza. The county covers an area of . U ...
, Tibet.)
[Dorje (2009), p. 397.]
Footnotes
References
* Dorje, Gyurme. ''Footprint Tibet Handbook''. 4th Edition. (2009) Bath, U.K.
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Bhutan
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