Samtse is a town and the headquarers of the
Samtse District
Samtse District ( Dzongkha: བསམ་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bsam-rtse rdzong-khag''; older spelling "Samchi") is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It comprises two subdistricts (''dungkhags''): ...
in Bhutan. The population of the town was 5,396 as of 2017. The population of the Samtse district was 60,100 at the 2005 census.
Samtse is close to the Bhutan–India border. Across the border is the Indian town of Chamurchi.
Climate
Samtse features a dry-winter
humid subtropical climate (
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* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
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''Cwa'') with very heavy rainfall in summer.
References
Populated places in Bhutan
Bhutan–India border crossings
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