Dagana District is a district located in Bhutan. Most of the district is populated by

Dzongkha Dzongkha (; ) is a Sino-Tibetan language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. It is written using the Tibetan script. The word means "the language of the fortress", from ' "fortress" and ' "language". , Dzongkha had 171,080 n ...

speakers. However, in the southwest part near the

Sarpang District Sarpang District (Dzongkha: གསར་སྤང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Gsar-spang rdzong-khag''; also known as "Geylegphug") is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Sarpang covers a total area of 1,946 sq km and ...

, Nepali is also spoken as a native language.

Administrative divisions

Dagana District itself is divided into fourteen village blocks (or '' gewogs''): *

Dorona Gewog Dorona Gewog is a gewog (village block) of Dagana District, Bhutan. It also comprises part of Dagapela Dungkhag, along with Goshi and Tashiding Tashiding is a small town on a hilltop at West District of Sikkim in the Eastern Himalaya of Indi ...

* Drujegang Gewog * Gesarling Gewog *

Goshi Gewog Goshi Gewog is a gewog (village block) of Dagana District, Bhutan. It also comprises part of Dagapela, along with Dorona and Tashiding Tashiding is a small town on a hilltop at West District of Sikkim in the Eastern Himalaya of India. Tashid ...

* Karmaling Gewog * Kana Gewog * Khebisa Gewog *

Lajab Gewog Lajab Gewog is a gewog (village block) of Dagana 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 Himalaya ...

* Lhamoy Zingkha Gewog *

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 Dis ...

Tashiding Gewog Tashiding Gewog is a ''gewog'' (sub district) of Dagana District, Bhutan. It also comprises part of Dagapela Dungkhag (sub-district), along with Dorona and Goshi Gewog Goshi Gewog is a gewog (village block) of Dagana District, Bhutan. It also co ...

Tsangkha Gewog Tsangkha Gewog is a gewog (village block) of Dagana 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 Himal ...

Tsendagang Gewog Tsendagang Gewog is a gewog (village block) of Dagana 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 Him ...

Tseza Gewog Tseza Gewog is a gewog (village block) of Dagana 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 Himalaya ...

Environment

Like most of the

districts of Bhutan 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 p ...

, Dagana contains environmentally protected areas. In southeastern Dagana that is along the border with India, lies the western half of

Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary The Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary is the second-smallest national park in Bhutan, covering in western Sarpang District and southeastern Dagana District along the border with West Bengal. It is connected to Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park and ...

, covering parts of Karmaling, Lhamoy Zingkha and

s. Phibsoo has no human inhabitants. It has districts that are habituated by Nepali speaking people. Daga Zong can be reached only by one single passage.

History

On April 26, 2007, 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 ...

(sub-district) was formally handed over from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag, having an impact on three gewogs (Lhamoy Zingkha, Deorali and Nichula (Zinchula) and the town of Lhamoy Zingkha, which formed the westernmost part of Sarpang Dzongkhag and now forms the southernmost part of Dagana Dzongkhag.http://www.pc.gov.bt/fyp/Dzongkhags/Sarpang.pdf

References

External links

Official dzongkha profile
with map of gewogs Districts of Bhutan {{Bhutan-geo-stub

Administrative divisions

Environment

History

See also

References

External links