Tendu or Tendruk Gewog ( dz, 1=བསྟང་འབྲུག་, translit=bstang 'brug) 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 ...
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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 ...
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The Tendruk 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
Bara,
Biru,
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.
The Tendruk village is on a ridge near the confluence of the Bindu River with the
Dichu (or Jaldhaka) River. The Indo-Bhutan border meets the Dichu near this point, with the west bank of Dichu being in India (
Kalimpong district
Kalimpong district is a district in the state of West Bengal, India. Originally known as Dalingkot tehsil, the region was alternatively under the control of Sikkim and Bhutan. In 1865, it was annexed from Bhutan by British India under the Treaty ...
) and the east bank being in Bhutan. Thus, part of the Tendruk gewog lies on the border with India. A little below the confluence is the
Bindu Dam over Dichu, which is said to be the second oldest dam in the Indian subcontinent. There is a border crossing to India over the dam.
The Tendruk Gewog occupies an area of .
[Tendruk Gewog]
Dzonkhag Administration, Samtse. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
It has 21 villages in 5 chiwogs. In 2012, it had a population of 6,175.
[Eleventh Five-Year Plan, Samtse Dzongkhag]
Gross National Happiness Commission, Royal
Government of Bhutan, 2013, . Sec. 4 (Dzonkhag at a glance, 2012).
References
External links
Tendruk Gewog marked on OpenStreetMap retrieved 25 October 2021.
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Gewogs of Bhutan
Samtse District