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Chiwogs Of Bhutan
Chiwogs of Bhutan or chios ( dz, སྤྱི་འོག་ ''chio'') refer to the 1044 basic electoral precincts of Bhutan. Chiwogs are also former third-level administrative divisions of Bhutan below ''gewog''s. Until 2009, they were the equivalent of municipalities or parishes, containing clusters of villages and hamlets. There are generally 5 or 6 chios in each geo, and in turn several geos in each ''dzongkha'' (district). To illustrate, there are 50 chios in Paro District alone. The majority of chios are small rural communities; more densely populated areas tend to be separate thromdes, or municipalities. A Chiwog Disaster Management Plan (CDMP) exists in some chios to form an effective responsive to any local disasters. Often, participants in the CDMP are also trained at a geo level for better coordination. Legal status Until 2009, chios were administrative divisions subordinate to geos. Under the 2008 Constitution, chios are mentioned only as electorates, defined as "und ...
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Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous country, Bhutan is known as "Druk Yul," or "Land of the Thunder Dragon". Nepal and Bangladesh are located near Bhutan but do not share a land border. The country has a population of over 727,145 and territory of and ranks 133rd in terms of land area and 160th in population. Bhutan is a Constitutional Democratic Monarchy with King as head of state and Prime Minister as head of government. Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism is the state religion and the Je Khenpo is the head of state religion. The subalpine Himalayan mountains in the north rise from the country's lush subtropical plains in the south. In the Bhutanese Himalayas, there are peaks higher than above sea level. Gangkhar Puensum is Bhutan's highest peak and is the highest uncl ...
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Ura Gewog
Ura Gewog ( dz, ཨུ་ར་རྒེད་འོག) is a gewog (village block) of Bumthang District, Bhutan. Ura Gewog consists of ten major villages- Tangsibi, Shingnyeer, Shingkhar, Pangkhar, Somthrang, Beteng, Trabi, Tarshong, Toepa and Chari with total household of 301 and population of 2288, covering an area of around 265 sq. kilometer with some 82% of forest cover Forest cover is the amount of forest that covers a particular area of land. It may be measured as relative (in percent) or absolute (in square kilometres/square miles). Around a third of the world's surface is covered with forest, with closed-canop ...age. The Gewog is located in the southeastern part of Bumthang District, 48 km distance from Dzongkhag Offices. It is bordered by Chhokhor and Chhumig gewog to the west, Tang gewog to the north, Zhemgang and Mongar District to the south and Lhuentse District to the east. The altitude of the gewog is around 3100 meters above sea level.Bumthang Dzongkhag Administra ...
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Sampheling Gewog
Sampheling Gewog (Dzongkha: བསམ་འཕེལ་གླིང་,''Samphelling Gewog'') is a gewog (village block) of Chukha District, Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous .... References Gewogs of Bhutan Chukha District {{Bhutan-geo-stub ...
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Phuentsholing Gewog
Phuentsholing Gewog ( Dzongkha: ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་,''Phuentshogling Gewog'') is a gewog (village block) of Chukha District, Bhutan. The gewog has an area of 139.8 square kilometres and contains 19 villages. Phuentsholing Gewog is part of Phuentsholing Dungkhag, along with Dala Dala may refer to: Places *Dala Airport, Dalarna province, Sweden *Dala, Angola * Dala, Bhutan * Dala, Kano, Nigeria **Dalla Hill, a hill in Kano, Nigeria *Đala, Serbia * Dalas, Khuzestan Province, Iran *Dala Township, Yangon, Myanmar People * ..., Logchina Gewogs and Shampheling Gewog. It is one of the highest populated gewog in Chukha Dzongkhag. References Gewogs of Bhutan Chukha District {{Bhutan-geo-stub ...
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Metakha Gewog
Metakha Gewog (Dzongkha: སྨད་བཏབ་ཁ་,Metabkha Gewog) is a gewog (village block) of Chukha District, Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou .... The gewog has an area of 100 square kilometres and contains six villages. References Gewogs of Bhutan Chukha District {{Bhutan-geo-stub ...
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Logchina Gewog
Logchina Gewog ( Dzongkha: ལོག་ཅི་ན་,''Loggchina Gewog'') is a gewog (village block) of Chukha District, Bhutan. The gewog has an area of 70.4 square kilometres and contains 12 villages. Logchina Gewog is part of Phuentsholing Dungkhag (sub-district), along with Dala Dala may refer to: Places *Dala Airport, Dalarna province, Sweden *Dala, Angola * Dala, Bhutan * Dala, Kano, Nigeria **Dalla Hill, a hill in Kano, Nigeria *Đala, Serbia * Dalas, Khuzestan Province, Iran *Dala Township, Yangon, Myanmar People * ..., Sampheling, Dungna, Metakha and Phuentsholing Gewogs. References Gewogs of Bhutan Chukha District {{Bhutan-geo-stub ...
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Getena Gewog
Getena Gewog ( Dzongkha: གད་སྟག་ན,''Getana Gewog''་) is a gewog (village block) of Chukha District, Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou .... The gewog has an area of 214 square kilometres. It contains 7 villages and 118 households. References Gewogs of Bhutan Chukha District {{Bhutan-geo-stub ...
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Geling Gewog
Geling Gewog (Dzongkha: དགེ་གླིང་) is a gewog (village block) of Chukha District, Bhutan. The gewog has an area of 247 square kilometres and contains 11 villages. References

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Dungna Gewog
Dungna Gewog (Dzongkha: གདུང་ན་,''Doongna Gewog'') is a gewog (village block) of Chukha District, Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous .... The gewog has an area of 165.4 square kilometres and contains 9 villages. References Gewogs of Bhutan Chukha District {{Bhutan-geo-stub ...
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Dala Gewog
Dala Gewog ( Dzongkha: དར་ལ་,''Darla Gewog'') is a gewog (village group) of Chukha District, Bhutan. The gewog has an area of 139.7 square kilometres and contains 7 villages. Dala Gewog is part of Phuentsholing Dungkhag, along with Logchina and Phuentsholing gewogs. Dala Gewog *Dala, Bhutan Dala also written as Tala or Darla is a town in southwestern Bhutan. It is located in Chukha District Chukha District (Dzongkha: ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Chu-kha rdzong-khag''; also spelled "Chhukha") is one of the ... References Gewogs of Bhutan Chukha District {{Bhutan-geo-stub ...
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Chapcha Gewog
Chapcha Gewog (Dzongkha: སྐྱབས་ཆ་,''Chaapchha Gewog'') is a '' gewog'' (village block) of Chukha District, Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous .... It has an area of 112.6 square kilometres and contains 11 villages. Settlements * Chapchha References Gewogs of Bhutan Chukha District {{Bhutan-geo-stub ...
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Bongo Gewog
Bongo Gewog ( Dzongkha: སྦོང་སྒོར་) is a gewog (village block) of Chukha District, Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou .... The gewog is the largest in the district with an area of 396 square kilometres. It contains 15 villages. References Gewogs of Bhutan Chukha District {{Bhutan-geo-stub ...
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