Trashiyangtse or Tashi Yangtse is a small
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 Yangtse Gewog, and the district headquarters of the
Trashiyangtse District
Trashiyangtse District ( dz, བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་, bkra shis g.yang rtse rdzong khag) is one of the twenty dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It was created in 1992 when Trashiyangtse d ...
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 lies inside the
Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary
The Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary (also spelled Bumdelling or Bomdeling), which contains the former Kulong Chu Wildlife Sanctuary, covers in northeastern Bhutan at elevations between and . The sanctuary covers most of Trashiyangtse Distri ...
on the eastern tri-junction of Bhutan-India-China and to the east lies
Tawang
Tawang is a town and administrative headquarter of Tawang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The town was once the capital of the Tawang Tract, which is now divided into the Tawang district and the West Kameng district. Tawan ...
in India. Nearest airport is
Yongphulla Airport
Yongphulla Airport (also known as Yonphula Airport) is a domestic airport in Bhutan, one of the country's four airports. It is located near Trashigang.
History
The airport was originally constructed by the Border Roads Organisation in the 1960 ...
130 km away.
Its population in 2005 was 2735. Located in close proximity to
Chorten Kora
Chorten Kora is an important stupa next to the Kholongchu River in Trashi Yangtse, in East Bhutan. Nearby is a town of the same name. The stupa was built in the 15th century by Lama Ngawang Lodrö, the nephew of Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in orde ...
stupa which lies to the west, a
dzong was inaugurated in Trashiyangste in 1997. It contains a major art school, The School of Traditional Arts, also known as Rigne School, which is a sister school of the
Zorig Chosum School of Traditional Arts in
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 ...
, and teaches six forms of art; painting, pottery, wood sculpture, wood-turning, lacquer-work and embroidery.
[Pommaret, Francoise (2006). ''Bhutan Himalayan Mountains Kingdom'' (5th edition). Odyssey Books and Guides, p.266]
See also
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Bhutan–India relations
The bilateral relations between the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan and the Republic of India have been traditionally close and both countries share a " special relationship", making Bhutan a protected state, but not a protectorate, of India. ...
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Bhutan–India border
The Bhutan–India border is the open international border separating the Kingdom of Bhutan from the Republic of India. The border is 699 km (434 m) long, and adjoins the Indian states of Assam (267 km; 166 m), Arunachal Pradesh (217&n ...
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Bhutan–China border
The Bhutan–China border is the international boundary between Bhutan and Tibet, China, running for through the Himalayas between the two tripoints with India.
Description
The border starts in the west at the western tripoint with India just no ...
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Line of Actual Control
The Line of Actual Control (LAC), in the context of the Sino-Indian border dispute, is a notional demarcation lineAnanth KrishnanLine of Actual Control , India-China: the line of actual contest, 13 June 2020: "In contrast, the alignment o ...
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.comYangtse Gewog- official web page.
Populated places in Bhutan
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