Tsirang District (
Dzongkha: རྩི་རང་རྫོང་ཁག་;
Wylie: ''Rtsi-rang rdzong-khag''; previously (Chirang), is one of the 20
dzongkhags (districts) 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 mountainou ...
. The administrative center of the district is
Damphu.
Tsirang is noted for its gentle slopes and mild climates. The dzongkhag is also noted for its rich biodiversity; however, it is one of the few dzongkhags without a
protected area. One of Bhutan's longest rivers, the Punatsang Chhu or
Sankosh river flows through the district. It is the main district where the
Lhotshampa
The Lhotshampa or Lhotsampa ( ne, ल्होत्साम्पा; ) people are a heterogeneous Bhutanese people of Nepalese descent. "Lhotshampa", which means "southern borderlanders" in Dzongkha, began to be used by the Bhutanese state i ...
resides. It has many beautiful places such as Rigsum Pemai Dumra,
Pemachoeling Heritage Forest, Tsirang
Namgyel Chholing Dratshang, and Nye.
Languages
The dominant language in Tsirang is
Nepali, but it can be partially different from those spoken in
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
, spoken by the heterogeneous
Lhotshampa
The Lhotshampa or Lhotsampa ( ne, ल्होत्साम्पा; ) people are a heterogeneous Bhutanese people of Nepalese descent. "Lhotshampa", which means "southern borderlanders" in Dzongkha, began to be used by the Bhutanese state i ...
like
Magar,
Tamang
The Tamang (; Devanagari: तामाङ; ''tāmāṅ'') are an Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group of Nepal. In Nepal Tamang/Moormi people constitute 5.6% of the Nepalese population at over 1.3 million in 2001, increasing to 1,539,830 as of the 2011 ...
,
Gurung
Gurung (exonym; ) or Tamu (endonym; Gurung: ) are an ethnic group indigenous to the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal. Gurung people predominantly live around the Annapurna region in Manang, Mustang, Dolpo, Kaski, Lamjung, Go ...
, Limbu, etc. In the north of Tsirang,
Dzongkha, the national language, is also spoken.
Administrative divisions
Tsirang District is divided into twelve village blocks (or ''
gewogs''):
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Barshong Gewog
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Dunglegang Gewog
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Gosarling Gewog
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Kikhorthang Gewog
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Mendrelgang Gewog
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Patshaling Gewog
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Phutenchhu Gewog
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Rangthangling Gewog
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Semjong Gewog
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Sergithang Gewog
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Tsholingkhar Gewog
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Tsirangtoe Gewog
Geography
Trisang covers a total area of 639 sq km.
The northernmost reaches of Tsirang District (the ''gewogs'' of
Phutenchhu and
Sergithang) lie within
Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park
Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park (formerly Black Mountains National Park) covers an area of in central Bhutan. It protects a large area of the Black Mountains (Bhutan), Black Mountains, a sub−range of the Himalayan Range System.
The park ...
, one of the
protected areas of Bhutan
The protected areas of Bhutan are its national parks, nature preserves, and wildlife sanctuaries. Most of these protected areas were first set aside in the 1960s, originally covering most of the northern and southern regions of Bhutan. Today, prot ...
.
See also
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Districts of Bhutan
References
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Districts of Bhutan