Samdrupcholing, formerly known as Bhangtar,
[See "Change of Names of Post Offices in Bhutan 1962 - present" by Leo van der Velden in Postal Himal, No. 162, 2nd Quarter and No. 163, 3rd Quarter 2015 ] is a rural town, ''Yenlag
Thromde
A thromde ( Dzongkha: ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་; Wylie: ''khrom-sde'') is a second-level administrative division in Bhutan. The legal administrative status of thromdes was most recently codified under the Local Government Act of 2009, and the ...
'', in the southeast of
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
Samdrup Jongkhar District
Samdrup Jongkhar District ( Dzongkha: བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bsam-grub Ljongs-mkhar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. The dominant langua ...
, close to the border with
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
.
References
*Armington, S. (2002) ''Bhutan.'' (2nd ed.) Melbourne: Lonely Planet.
Populated places in Bhutan
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