Umling Gewog (
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 ...
: ཨུམ་གླིང་) is a
gewog (village block) of
Sarpang District
Sarpang District (Dzongkha: གསར་སྤང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Gsar-spang rdzong-khag''; also known as "Geylegphug") is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Sarpang covers a total area of 1,946 sq km and ...
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Bhutan
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Umling Gewog is situated in the central Southern foothills of
Sarpang
Sarpang, also transliterated as Sarbhang or Sarbang, is a thromde or town in Sarpang District in southern Bhutan
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Dzongkhag, bordering
Assam
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India
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, in the
South, and
Chuzagang Gewog in the West,
Tareythang
Tareythang is a small village located in Pakyong sub division at the Pakyong District of Sikkim state in India. This village is about 1250 m above sea level with a sub-tropical climate. It is 12 kilometers away from Pakyong. In electoral roll of ...
Gewog in the East and
Zhemgang Dzongkhag in the North.
Its total geographical area is approximately , of which is arable land. It has undulated terrain with an elevation ranging from above sea level. It has warm and humid climatic condition in winter and hot and rainy climatic conditions in summer.
It is approximately from the Dungkhag headquarters (Gelephu) and is connected with the farm road which is inaccessible in the monsoon season due to heavy downpour. It has a total population of 3129 with almost 100 percent of the people dependent upon agriculture.
Arecanut and ginger are grown as principal cash crop while paddy and maize are cultivated as main crop by the farmers. Beside farmers also rear domestic animals like cows, oxen, goats, sheep, etc. which ultimately add to their livelihood.
Until 2011 local government election, the Gewog had eight Chiwogs, namely: Chhuborthang, Daangling, Doongmin, Gaden, Lingar, Rijoog, Tashithang and Thongjazor and was merged into five Chiwogs, namely: Daangling, Doongmin, Gaden, Rijoog and Tashithang after the first LG election.
The Geog is administratively headed by Gelephu Dungkhag and subsequently by Sarpang Dzongkhag.
References
Sarpang District
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