Biru Gewog is a former
gewog (village block) of
Samtse District
Samtse District ( Dzongkha: བསམ་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bsam-rtse rdzong-khag''; older spelling "Samchi") is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It comprises two subdistricts (''dungkhags''): T ...
,
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 49.04 square kilometres and contains 15 ''
chewogs'' with 46 villages and 448 households.
Biru Gewog comprises part of Sipsu
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 ...
(sub-district), together with
Tendu,
Bara,
Lehereni, and
Sipsu Gewog
Tashicholing ( dz, བཀྲིས་ཙོས་གླིང་, translit=bkris tsos gling ) or Sipsu Gewog
is a gewog (village block) of the Samtse District, Bhutan.
Geography
The gewog is to the south of Pemaling gewog and southwest of ...
s.
References
Former gewogs of Bhutan
Samtse District
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