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ID: 1065979
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1065979
Record Type:
administrative
Thimphu (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 27 32 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 27.5333
decimal degrees
Long: 089 43 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 89.7167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in the Himalayan mountains at an altitude of 7000 feet, on the Wong Chu river amidst terraced fields of rice, maize & wheat; site of traditional fortified monastery that has been remodeled to house the offices of royal government.
Names:
Thimphu
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Thimbu
(
C
,
V
)
Tashi Chho Dzong
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Druk Yul
(nation) (
P
)
............
Thimphu
(national district) (
P
)
................
Thimphu
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1581
town (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
seat of government since 1962
district capital (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
power production center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
monastic center (
H
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Druk Yul
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Asia) [7014831]
Sources and Contributors:
Tashi Chho Dzong..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1208
Thimbu..........
[
VP
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
647
Thimphu..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 709
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 28
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
193
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
647
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 709
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 28
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
193
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1208
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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