Trongsa

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Trongsa
Trongsa
Trongsa Location in Bhutan
Coordinates: 27°31′N 90°30′E / 27.517°N 90.500°E / 27.517; 90.500
Country	Bhutan
District	Trongsa District
Time zone	UTC+6 (BTT)

Trongsa, previously Tongsa (Dzongkha: ཀྲོང་གསར་, Wylie: krong gsar), is a Thromde or town, and the capital of Trongsa District in central Bhutan. The name means "new village" in Dzongkha.^{[citation needed]} The first temple was built in 1543 by the Drukpa lama Ngagi Wangchuck, who was the great-grandfather of Ngawang Namgyal, Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the unifier of Bhutan.^{[citation needed]}