Duksum, also known in the past as Doksum, Dogsum or Dosum is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

in north-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 mountainou ...

. It is located in Khamdang Gewog in

Trashiyangtse District Trashiyangtse District ( dz, བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་, bkra shis g.yang rtse rdzong khag) is one of the twenty dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It was created in 1992 when Trashiyangtse d ...

. By road it is 21 km. from Trashigang town and only 2 km. from the well known religious site of Gomphu Kora. Duksum was famous for its ancient Chazam (iron suspension bridge), which was, however, dismantled in 2004 for restoration. Originally built by lama

Thang Tong Gyalpo Thangtong Gyalpo () (1385 CE–1464 CE or 1361 CE–1485 CE), also known as Chakzampa, the "Iron Bridge Maker" (), Tsöndrü Zangpo "Excellent Persistence" (), and the King of the Empty Plain.Sarah Harding. Niguma, Lady of Illusion. Snow L ...

, it was rebuilt after 2004 at Tamchog Lhakhang near Paro. The township of Duksum was mainly a trading post for nearby, off-the-road settlements. Its importance declined with the extension of rural roads and especially because of a heavy rockfall of 2004 which destroyed many shops, restaurants and houses. Duksum main street Oct 2008 059 461 kb

At the 2005 census, its population was 283. The post code of Duksum post office is 46002.Bhutan Post post codes list http://www.bhutanpost.bt/documents/postcodes.pdf

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Populated places in Bhutan {{Bhutan-geo-stub