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Drungkhag
A dungkhag ( dz, དྲུང་ཁག་ ''drungkhak'') is a sub-district of a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. The head of a dungkhag is a ''Dungpa''. As of 2007, nine of the twenty dzongkhags had from one to three dungkhags, with sixteen dungkhags in total. History Under Bhutan's first government Act of decentralization, the Dzongkhag Yargay Tshogdu Chathrim of 2002 Dungpas were given a non-voting seat on the Dzongkhag Yargay Tshogdu. Under the Local Government Act of 2007, dungkhags provided general administration and coordination for two or more gewogs. As a result, some gewogs within a given district were directly subordinate to dungkhags while others are directly subordinate to dzongkhags. Dungkhag Administrations guided and supported their constituent Gewog Administrations and implemented the decisions of the Dzongkhag Tshogdu. Dungpas were administrative executives that reported directly to the Dzongkhag administration. The Dungpa was empowered to attend the meetings of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dzongkhag
The Kingdom of Bhutan is divided into 20 districts ( Dzongkha: ). Bhutan is located between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India on the eastern slopes of the Himalayas in South Asia. are the primary subdivisions of Bhutan. They possess a number of powers and rights under the Constitution of Bhutan, such as regulating commerce, running elections, and creating local governments. The Local Government Act of 2009 established local governments in each of the 20 overseen by the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs. Each has its own elected government with non-legislative executive powers, called a (district council). The is assisted by the administration headed by a (royal appointees who are the chief executive officer of each ). Each also has a court presided over by a (judge), who is appointed by the Chief Justice of Bhutan on the advice of Royal Judicial Service Council. The , and their residents, are represented in the Parliament of Bhutan, a bicameral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chukha Bhutan Location Map
Chukha District (Dzongkha: ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Chu-kha rdzong-khag''; also spelled "Chhukha") is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. The major town is Phuentsholing which is the gateway city along the sole road which connects India to western Bhutan (cf. Lateral Road). Chukha is the commercial and the financial capital of Bhutan. With Bhutan's oldest hydropower plant, Chukha hydel (completed in 1986–88), and Tala Hydroelectricity Project, the country's largest power plant, Chukha is the dzongkhag which contributes the most to the GDP of the country. Also located in Chukha district are some of the country's oldest industrial companies like the Bhutan Carbide Chemical Limited (BCCL) and the Bhutan Boards Products Limited (BBPL). Languages In Chukha, the main native languages are Dzongkha, the national language spoken by Ngalop people in the north, and Lhotshampa in the south. The Bhutanese Lhokpu language, spoken by the Lh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samdrup Jongkhar District
Samdrup Jongkhar District ( Dzongkha: བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bsam-grub Ljongs-mkhar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. The dominant languages of the district are Tshangla (Sharchopkha) in the north and west, and Nepali in the east. It covers a total area of 1878 sq km. Samdrup dzongkhag comprises two dungkhags: Jhomotsangkha and Samdrupchhoeling, and 11 gewogs. Administrative divisions Samdrup Jongkhar District is divided into eleven village groups (or '' gewogs''): * Dewathang Gewog * Gomdar Gewog * Langchenphu Gewog * Lauri Gewog * Martshala Gewog * Orong Gewog * Pemathang Gewog * Phuntshothang Gewog * Samrang Gewog * Serthi Gewog * Wangphu Gewog Protected areas Samdrup Jongkhar contains protected areas. Southeastern Samdrup Jongkhar District (the ''gewogs'' of Langchenphu, Pemathang, Samrang and Serthi) contains Khaling Wildlife Sanctuary, which is connected via ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norbugang Gewog (Pemagatshel)
Norbugang Gewog (Dzongkha: ནོར་བུ་སྒང་) is a gewog (village block) of Pemagatshel District, Bhutan. Norbugang Gewog is part of Nganglam Dungkhag, along with Dechenling and Nganglam Gewog Nganglam Gewog is a former gewog (village block) of Pemagatshel District, Bhutan. Nganglam Gewog is part of Nganglam Dungkhag A dungkhag ( dz, དྲུང་ཁག་ ''drungkhak'') is a sub-district of a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. The he ...s. References External links * https://web.archive.org/web/20100503060847/http://www.pemagatshel.gov.bt/gewogDetail.php?id=39 Gewogs of Bhutan Pemagatshel District {{coord missing, Bhutan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choekhorling Gewog
Chokhorling Gewog (Dzongkha: ཆོས་འཁོར་གླིང་) is a gewog (village block) of Pemagatshel 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 External links * https://web.archive.org/web/20100503060847/http://www.pemagatshel.gov.bt/gewogDetail.php?id=43 Gewogs of Bhutan Pemagatshel District {{coord missing, Bhutan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dechenling Gewog
Dechheling Gewog ( Dzongkha: བདེ་ཆེན་གླིང་) is a gewog (village block) of Pemagatshel District, Bhutan. Dechenling Gewog is part of Nganglam Dungkhag, along with Nganglam Nganglam or Nanglam is a town in south-eastern 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, betw ... and Norbugang Gewogs. References External links * https://web.archive.org/web/20100503060847/http://www.pemagatshel.gov.bt/gewogDetail.php?id=35 Gewogs of Bhutan Pemagatshel District {{coord missing, Bhutan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pemagatshel Bhutan Location Map
Pemagatsel, also transliterated as Pemagatsel, is a town in Pemagatshel District in eastern 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 External linksSatellite map at Maplandia.com Populated places in Bhutan {{Bhutan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pemagatshel District
Pemagatshel is one of the 20 districts of Bhutan. Language Native speak Tshangla (Sharchopkha), an East Bodish language that is the ''lingua franca'' of eastern Bhutan. Population Pemagatshel district, as of 2005, had a population of 13,864. In February 2011, some 42 households in remote areas of Pemagatshel were slated for relocation closer to population centers in order to provide better access to resources, both natural and governmental. Proponents for this move cited Gross National Happiness as a reason to improve living standards through relocation. This model, if successful, would be replicated in Haa and Lhuentse Districts. Dzongkhag Profile Pemagatshel is located in the south east of Bhutan with an area of 517.8 km2 and has a total of 2,547 households. The dzongkhag is characterized by highly dissected mountain ranges, steep slopes and narrow valleys with little flat land. The elevation in the dzongkhag ranges from 1,000 meters to 3,500 meters above the sea le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nichula Gewog
Nichula Gewog is a '' gewog'' (village block) of Dagana District, Bhutan. It also comprises part of Lhamoy Zingkha Dungkhag (sub-district), along with Lhamoy Zingkha and Deorali Gewog Deorali Gewog is a former gewog (village block) of Dagana District, Bhutan. It also comprises part of Lhamoy Zingkha Dungkhag A dungkhag ( dz, དྲུང་ཁག་ ''drungkhak'') is a sub-district of a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. The he ...s. In 2007, Lhamoy Zingkha Dungkhag was formally transferred from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag, affecting the town of Lhamozingkha and three constituent gewogs – Lhamozingkha, Deorali and Nichula (Zinchula) – that formed the westernmost part of Sarpang and became the southernmost part of Dagana. References Gewogs of Bhutan Dagana District {{Bhutan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deorali Gewog
Deorali Gewog is a former gewog (village block) of Dagana District, Bhutan. It also comprises part of Lhamoy Zingkha Dungkhag A dungkhag ( dz, དྲུང་ཁག་ ''drungkhak'') is a sub-district of a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. The head of a dungkhag is a ''Dungpa''. As of 2007, nine of the twenty dzongkhags had from one to three dungkhags, with sixteen dungkh ..., along with Lhamoy Zingkha and Nichula Gewogs. In 2007, Lhamoy Zingkha Dungkhag was formally transferred from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag, affecting the town of Lhamozingkha and three constituent gewogs – Lhamozingkha, Deorali and Nichula (Zinchula) – that formed the westernmost part of Sarpang and became the southernmost part of Dagana. References Former gewogs of Bhutan Dagana District {{coord missing, Bhutan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagana Bhutan Location Map , Bhutan
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Dagana may refer to: * Dagana, Senegal a town * Dagana Department, Senegal * Dagana River, Senegal * Dagana Department, Chad * Dagana District Dagana District is a district located in Bhutan. Most of the district is populated by Dzongkha speakers. However, in the southwest part near the Sarpang District, Nepali language, Nepali is also spoken as a native language. Administrative division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
