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Thimphu District (
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 ...
: ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Thim-phu rdzong-khag'') is a
dzongkhag 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 ...
(district) of
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 ...
.
Thimphu Thimphu (; dz, ཐིམ་ཕུག ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Bhutan. It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's ''dzongkhags'', the Thimphu District. The ancient ...
is also the capital of Bhutan and the largest city in the whole kingdom.


Languages

The dominant language throughout the district is
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 ...
; however, within the capital nearly every language of Bhutan may be encountered.


Administrative divisions

Thimphu District is divided into eight '' gewogs'' and one town (
Thimphu Thimphu (; dz, ཐིམ་ཕུག ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Bhutan. It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's ''dzongkhags'', the Thimphu District. The ancient ...
): * Chang Gewog * Dagala Gewog * Genyekha Gewog * Kawang Gewog * Lingzhi Gewog * Mewang Gewog * Naro Gewog * Soe Gewog Lingzhi, Soe and Naro Gewogs belong to the Lingzhi ''
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 ...
'' subdistrict, the only subdistrict within Thimphu District. The remaining gewogs do not belong to any subdistrict.


Environment

The northern half of Thimphu District (the ''gewogs'' of
Kawang Kawang is a town in Paletwa Township, Mindat District, in the Chin State of Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only so ...
, Lingzhi,
Naro Naro ( scn, Naru ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Agrigento, on the island of Sicily, Italy. It is bounded by the comuni of Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Camastra, Campobello di Licata, Canicattì, Castrofilippo, Delia, Italy, Delia, Favara, Ag ...
and Soe – corresponding roughly to Lingzhi Dungkhag) is subject to environmental protection, falling within
Jigme Dorji National Park The Jigme Dorji National Park (JDNP), named after the late Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, is the second-largest National Park of Bhutan. It occupies almost the entire Gasa District, as well as the northern areas of Thimphu District, Paro District, Puna ...
.
Thimphu-06-vom Buddha Dordenma-2015-gje.jpg, View of
Thimphu Thimphu (; dz, ཐིམ་ཕུག ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Bhutan. It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's ''dzongkhags'', the Thimphu District. The ancient ...
Thimphu District-16-Reisterrassen-2015-gje.jpg, Rice terraces Thimphu District-18-Haus-2015-gje.jpg, Traditional house Bhutan-Straßenbau-120-Dochu La-Abfahrt-LKW-gje.jpg, Expansion of the road to Dochu La Dochu La-108 Choerten-26-2015-gje.jpg, 108 Choerten on the Dochu La Dochu La-View-14-2015-gje.jpg, View from Dochu La


See also

*
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 ...
*
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 ...
* Thimphu Province


References


External links

* Districts of Bhutan {{Bhutan-geo-stub