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Dechencholing Palace was built in 1953 after the coronation of the third King of Bhutan, Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, following the death of his father, Druk Gyalpo Jigme Wangchuck, in 1952. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The third king's son Jigme Singye Wangchuck was born here on 11 November 1955. [ 8 ]
Thimphu District (Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Thim-phu rdzong-khag) is a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. Thimphu is also the capital of Bhutan and the largest city in the whole kingdom.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Chang Gewog (Dzongkha: ལྕང་) is a gewog (village block) of Thimphu District, Bhutan. [1] [2] References
Motithang is a north-western suburb of Thimphu, Bhutan.The Chubachu River divides the district from Kawajangsa further north and Chubachu district lies to the east.. Meaning "the meadow of pearls", the area only developed as a residential area in the 1980s, following the initial establishment of the Motithang Hotel in 1974, on the occasion of the coronation of Jigme Singye Wangchuck. [1]
The original Thimphu dzong (the Do-Ngön Dzong, or Blue Stone Dzong) was built in 1216 by Lama Gyalwa Lhanapa (1164–1224), founder of the Lhapa branch of the Drikung Kagyu, at the place where Dechen Phodrang Monastery now stands on a ridge above the present Tashichö-dzong.
The Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan is the only stock exchange in Bhutan. It is one of the world's smallest stock exchanges, with a market capitalization of around 738 million dollars and 18 listed companies as of December 2024. As of 2024, market capitalization in Bhutanese Ngultrum (BTN) is 62,000,000,000.
Chubachu is the central district of Thimphu, Bhutan. It is bounded by the Chubachu River to the north, the Wang Chu River to the east and Changangkha and Motithang to the west. [1] The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has its Bhutanese headquarters here; it has been responsible for facilitating tiger conservation in Bhutan. [2]