Districts of Bhutan

Bhutan comprises twenty districts (dzongkhag, both singular and plural).

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Districts of Bhutan
No. Dzongkhag
(District) 		Former spelling Dzongkha Romanization[note 1] Dsongdey
(zone)
1. Bumthang བུམ་ཐང་Bºumtha Southern
2. Chukha Chhukha ཆུ་ཁ་Chukha Western
3. Dagana Dhakana, Tagana, Daga དར་དཀར་ནང་Dºagana Central
4. Gasa མགར་ས་Gâsa Central
5. Haa Haཧད་ / ཧཱ་Hâ Western
6. Lhuntse Lhuntshi ལྷུན་རྩེ་Lhüntsi Eastern
7. Mongar Monggar, Mongor མོང་སྒར་Mongga Eastern
8. Paro སྤ་གྲོ་Paro Western
9. Pemagatshel Pemagatsel, Pema Gatshel པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་Pemagatshä Eastern
10. Punakha སྤུ་ན་ཁ་Punakha Central
11. Samdrup Jongkhar བསཾ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་Samdru Jongkha Eastern
12. Samtse Samchi བསམ་རྩེ་Samtsi Western
13. Sarpang Geylegphug, Gaylegphug, Gelephu (Sarbhang)གསར་སྦང་Sarbang Southern
14. Thimphu ཐིམ་ཕུག་Thimphu Western
15. Trashigang Tashigang བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་Trashigang Eastern
16. Trashiyangtse བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་Trashi'yangtse Eastern
17. Trongsa Tongsa ཀྲོང་གསར་Trongsa Southern
18. Tsirang Chirang རྩི་རང་Tsirang Central
19. Wangdue Phodrang Wangdi Phodrang དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་'Wangdi Phodrºa Central
20. Zhemgang Shemgang གཞལ་སྒང་Zhºämgang Southern
  1. ↑ Used by the Dzongkha Development Commission, reflecting pronunciation

District Statistics

The results of the 2005 census appear below:[2]

District Statistics
No. Dzongkhag
(District) 		Capital Area
km² 		Population
2005 		DensityZoneDungkhag[3]
(Sub-
districts)		GewogTowns
1. Bumthang Jakar2,49016,1166.5Southern-45
2. Chukha Phuentsholing1,99174,38737.4Western1116
3. Dagana Daga1,27618,22214.3Central-114
4. Gasa Gasa4,0893,1160.8Central-41
5. Haa Ha1,31911,6488.8Western-51
6. Lhuntse Lhuntshi2,88115,3955.3Eastern-82
7. Mongar Mongar1,63837,06922.6Eastern-164
8. Paro Paro1,69336,43321.5Western-102
9. Pemagatshel Pemagatsel59313,86423.4Eastern-77
10. Punakha Punakha84517,71521.0Central-91
11. Samdrup Jongkhar Samdrup Jongkhar2,20739,96118.1Eastern3115
12. Samtse Samtse1,72560,10034.8Western2163
13. Sarpang Geylegphug2,04841,54920.3Southern2153
14. Thimphu Thimphu1,61798,67661.0Western1101
15. Trashigang Tashigang2,17151,13423.6Eastern3166
16. Trashiyangste Tashi Yangtse1,45917,74012.2Eastern-82
17. Trongsa Tongsa1,81513,4197.4Southern-51
18. Tsirang Damphu63218,66729.5Central-121
19. Wangdue Phodrang Wangdi Phodrang4,18131,1357.4Central-153
20. Zhemgang Zhemgang2,14618,6368.7Southern183
  Bhutan Thimphu 38,816634,98216.4 1320161

On April 26, 2007 Lhamozingkha Dungkhag (subdistrict) was formally handed over from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag.,[4] affecting three gewog (Lhamozingkha, Deorali and Nichula (Zinchula) and the town of Lhamozingkha), which formed the westernmost part of Sarpang Dzongkhag and now form the southernmost part of Dagana Dzongkhag.[5] This is change is not reflected in the table above. Since 2008, Bhutan has redrawn many of its other borders, both internal and international, with the result of creating a no man's land, later claimed by China, out of the Northern Basin area of Gasa District.[6]

Zone Statistics

Dzongdey
(Zone) 		Capital Area
km² 		Population
2005 		Density Dzongkhag
(Districts)
Central Damphu11,02388,8558.15
Eastern Mongar10,949175,16316.06
Southern Geylegphug8,49989,72010.64
Western Thimphu8,345281,24433.75
Bhutan Thimphu 38,816634,98216.420

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Delimitation". Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
  2. ↑ "Fact Sheet – Population and Housing Census of Bhutan" (PDF). Bhutan National Statistics Bureau. 2005. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
  3. ↑ http://www.statoids.com/ybt.html
  4. ↑ http://www.sarpang.gov.bt/newsDetail.php?id=13
  5. ↑ http://www.pc.gov.bt/fyp/Dzongkhags/Sarpang.pdf
  6. ↑ "An Open letter to the Bhutanese parliamentarians". AFPA News.com. 2009-11-20. Retrieved 2011-04-24.

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