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    667°E / 27.750; 90.667 Bumthang District (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Bum-thang rzong-khag) is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan...
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  • the Bumthang Kingdom became Bumthang Province, one of the nine Provinces of Bhutan. The region was roughly analogous to modern-day Bumthang District. It...
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  • Bumthang and surrounding districts of Bhutan. Van Driem (1993) describes Bumthang as the dominant language of central Bhutan. Historically, Bumthang and...
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    also known as the Kurjey Monastery, is located in the Bumthang valley in the Bumthang district of Bhutan. This is the final resting place of the remains...
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    Bumthang Valley is the main inhabited valley in the Bumthang district of Bhutan. Bumthang is one of the most beautiful and sacred valleys in Bhutan. The...
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  • Bumthang may refer to: Bumthang (town), officially Jakar Bumthang District Bumthang River Bumthang Kingdom Bumthang people Bumthang language Bumthang...
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    gling; kha stod; la; nor bu; pad ma; sgang; sde; smad; stod. "Chiwogs in Bumthang" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from...
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  • BUT, ICAO: VQBT) is a domestic Bhutanese airport in Jakar (Bjakar), Bumthang District. One of only four airports in the country, it opened on 17 December...
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    Ura is a town in Ura Gewog in Bumthang District in northeastern Bhutan. The town is famous for the Matsutake Festival that is organized every August....
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    higher up in Gangkar Puensum, and ends in Trongsa and from there to Bumthang District, taking through the rough paths of the Himalayas and up to as high...
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    Ugyen Wangchuck (category People from Bumthang District)
    of the people. Ugyen Wangchuck was born in Wangdicholing Palace, Jakar, Bumthang in 1862. His father, Jigme Namgyal, was the Druk Desi of Bhutan at the...
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  • language spoken by about 300 people in the village of Dhur in Bumthang Valley of Bumthang District in central Bhutan. Brokkat is spoken by descendants of pastoral...
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    in Samtse District Gayltsa Valley (Gyatsa), Bumthang District H Haa Valley, in Haa District J Jakar Valley (Byakar), in Bumthang District L Lhuentse...
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    Jakar (redirect from Bumthang (town))
    the central-eastern region of Bhutan. It is the district capital (dzongkhag thromde) of Bumthang District and the location of Jakar Dzong, the regional...
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    administrative headquarters of Tsirang District. Jakar, the administrative headquarters of Bumthang District and the place where Buddhism entered Bhutan...
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    or fortress of the Bumthang District in central Bhutan. It is located on a ridge above Jakar town in the Chamkhar valley of Bumthang. It is built on the...
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  • Iran Tang, Badakhshan, a village in Afghanistan Tang, a village in Bumthang District, Bhutan Tang (唐镇), a town in Pudong, Shanghai, China Tang, Sistan...
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    Bumthang District, Bhutan. Other, lesser-known temples in Bhutan have been destroyed, but it is believed that, among others, Kongchogsum in Bumthang,...
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    considered the “protector saint of Bhutan”. Later, Padmasambhava visited Bumthang district to subdue a powerful deity offended by a local king. Padmasambhava's...
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    Jigme Thinley (category People from Bumthang District)
    18 August 2004 and 9 April 2008 to 28 April 2013. Thinley was born in Bumthang and joined the civil service in 1976 upon receiving a graduate degree from...
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  • namely Ura, Chumey, Tang and Choekhor in Bumthang district. They speak the Bumthangkha or Bumthang language, a member of the extended Sino-Tibetan language...
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    Membartsho (category Bumthang District)
    Rinpoche's terma in the 15th century. The pool in the Tang Valley, near Bumthang in central Bhutan is known locally as the Burning Lake, because according...
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    Horagolla Bandaranaike Samadhi, Sri Lanka Kurjey Lhakhang, Bumthang Valley, Bumthang District, Bhutan Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum...
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  • Prakhar is a village in the Bumthang District of Bhutan. Located within the Chhume valley in Central Bhutan, the village is notable for its annual festivals...
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    language, spoken in the western two-thirds of the district. Communities along the border with Bumthang District in the northeast speak Lakha. Along the same...
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    the horticulture research, a new research centre was proposed at Bumthang District. Around 40 varieties of paddy were tested to check for geographical...
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    Yeshe Ngodub (category People from Bumthang District)
    of government of Bhutan. Ngodub was born in 1851 in the Tang Valley of Bumthang in central Bhutan. While still a child, he was identified as the fifth...
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    Monastery is a Buddhist Nyingmapa Monastery of Jangter Tradition based in Bumthang District Central Bhutan. The monastery overlooks Jakar Dzong and the valley...
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    Kunzang Choden (category People from Bumthang District)
    first Bhutanese woman to write a novel in English. Choden was born in Bumthang District. Her parents were feudal landlords. At the age of nine, her father...
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  • Rife, Bhutan is a town in Bumthang District in central Bhutan. "NGA GeoName Database". National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original...
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