| Trashiyangtse district | |
| Native Name: | བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་ |
| Settlement Type: | District |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Bhutan |
| Seat Type: | Headquarters |
| Seat: | Yangtse |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 1,438 |
| Population Total: | 17,300 |
| Population As Of: | 2017 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Blank Name Sec2: | HDI (2019) |
| Blank Info Sec2: | 0.588[1] · 18th of 20 |
| Timezone1: | BTT |
| Utc Offset1: | +6 |
Trashiyangtse District (Dzongkha: བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་|bkra shis g.yang rtse rdzong khag) is one of the twenty dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It was created in 1992 when Trashiyangtse district was split off from Trashigang District. Trashiyangtse covers an area of 1437.9km2. At an elevation of 1750–1880 m, Trashi yangtse dzongkhag is rich of culture filled with sacred places blessed by Guru Rimpoche and dwelled by Yangtseps, Tshanglas, Bramis from Tawang, Khengpas from Zhemgang and Kurtoeps from Lhuentse.
Trashiyangtse was named by Terton Pema Lingpa during his visit in 15th century meaning; (the fortress of the auspicious fortune).
The northern part of Trashiyangtse encompasses the skills of woodturning and paper making(dzongkha: དལ་ཤོག). Southern part mainly depends on cash crops and animals.
The district seat is Trashiyangtse.
Three major languages are spoken in Trashiyangtse. In the north, including Bumdeling inhabitants speak Dzala. In the south, Tshangla (Sharchopkha), the lingua franca of eastern Bhutan, is spoken in Jamkhar, Khamdang, Yalang and Ramjar Gewogs. In Tomzhangtshen Gewog, residents speak Chocha Ngacha and khengkha.
Trashiyangste District is divided into eight village blocks (or gewogs):[2]
Trashiyangtse District contains Kholong Chu Wildlife Sanctuary, established in 1993, itself part of the larger Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary. Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary currently covers the northern half of Trashiyangtse (the gewogs of Bumdeling and Yangtse), as well as substantial portions of neighboring districts.[3]