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 ...
):
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Chang Gewog
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Dagala Gewog
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Genyekha Gewog
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Kawang Gewog
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Lingzhi Gewog
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Mewang Gewog
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Naro Gewog
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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
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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Thimphu Province
References
External links
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Districts of Bhutan
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