Sakteng ( dz, སག་སྟེང་, sag steng, size=150%) is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and the headquarters of an
eponymous gewog in
Trashigang District
Trashigang District ( Dzongkha: བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bkra-shis-sgang rdzong-khag''; also spelled "Tashigang") is Bhutan's easternmost dzongkhag (district).
Culture
The population of the district ...
in far 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 ...
.
The nearby
Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary
Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in Bhutan, located in Merak and Sakteng Gewogs of Trashigang District and just crossing the border into Samdrup Jongkhar District. It is one of the country's protected areas and is listed as a ...
is named after it.
In popular culture
Sakteng was featured in an
Imogen Heap
Imogen Jennifer Heap (born 9 December 1977) is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Her work has been considered pioneering in pop and electropop music.
Heap classically trained in piano, cello and clarinet starting at ...
song and video ''Climb to Sakteng'' officially published in 2014 as part of the album
Sparks. It documents the families of the village carrying power poles up the mountain as part of the successful 2012 effort to electrify their village.
References
*Armington, S. (2002) ''Bhutan.'' (2nd ed.) Melbourne: Lonely Planet.
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.comMusic video of Climb to Sakteng
Populated places in Bhutan
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