Dorokha Gewog, now called Dophuchen Geog, is a
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 ...
.
Dorokha Gewog is part of Dorokha
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), which comprise
Dorokha and
Denchukha Gewogs.
The people here speak ''
Lhotshamkha'' and are predominantly Hindus. It is connected with road from Samtse town, Phuntsholing, and Haa via ''Tergola''. The nearest town, and district headquarters, is
Samtse
Samtse is a town and the headquarers of the Samtse District in Bhutan. The population of the town was 5,396 as of 2017. The population of the Samtse district was 60,100 at the 2005 census.
Samtse is close to the Bhutan–India border. Across the ...
, about 3 hours driven from the Drungkhag.
The road newtworks connect most of the remote parts of the Geog, including Sengdhyen, a Doya or Lhop community.
References
*Armington, S. (2002) ''Bhutan.'' (2nd ed.) Melbourne: Lonely Planet.
Former gewogs of Bhutan
Samtse District
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