Athang (formerly Alla) is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in central-southern
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 is located in
Wangdue Phodrang District
Wangdue Phodrang District ( Dzongkha: དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Dbang-'dus Pho-brang rdzong-khag''; previously spelled "Wangdi Phodrang") is a dzongkhag (district) of central Bhutan. This ...
.
Gallery
File:View of Athang from Dolebchen.jpg, View of Athang from Dolebchen
File:Traditional Bhutanese houses in Athang.jpg, Traditional Bhutanese houses in Lophokha, Athang
See also
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List of cities, towns and villages in Bhutan
This is an alphabetical list of settlements in Bhutan.Note that this list is based mainly on information of the Election Commission, which not necessarily follows the general RGOB usage. See p.8 of "Change of Names of Post Offices in Bhutan 1962 - ...
References
Populated places in Bhutan
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