Samdrup Jongkhar 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 ...
: བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག་;
Wylie: ''Bsam-grub Ljongs-mkhar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20
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 ...
s (districts) comprising
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 ...
. The dominant languages of the district are
Tshangla (Sharchopkha) in the north and west, and
Nepali in the east. It covers a total area of 1878 sq km.
Samdrup dzongkhag comprises two dungkhags: Jhomotsangkha and Samdrupchhoeling, and 11 gewogs.
Administrative divisions
Samdrup Jongkhar District is divided into eleven village groups (or ''
gewogs''):
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Dewathang Gewog
Dewathang Gewog (Dzongkha: དབེ་བ་ཐང་) is a gewog (village block) of Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country ...
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Gomdar Gewog
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Langchenphu Gewog
Langchenphu Gewog (Dzongkha: གླང་ཅན་ཕུ་) is a gewog (village block) of Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked co ...
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Lauri Gewog
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Martshala Gewog
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Orong Gewog
Orong Gewog (Dzongkha: ཨོ་རོང་) is a gewog (smallest administrative Unit in Bhutan called block) of Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan. It is situated north of Samdrup Jongkhar town. The Gewog is about 45 km from Samdrup Jongkhar wit ...
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Pemathang Gewog
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Phuntshothang Gewog
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Samrang Gewog
Samrang Gewog (Dzongkha: བསམ་རང་) is a gewog (village block) of Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan. They also comprise part of Bhangtar Dungkhag
A dungkhag ( dz, དྲུང་ཁག་ ''drungkhak'') is a sub-district of a dzong ...
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Serthi Gewog
Serthi Gewog (Dzongkha: གསེར་ཐིག་) is a gewog (village block) of Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in ...
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Wangphu Gewog
Wangphu Gewog (Dzongkha: ཝང་ཕུག་) is a gewog (village block) of Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in Sout ...
Protected areas
Samdrup Jongkhar
Samdrup Jongkhar (Dzongkha:བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་) is a town and seat of Samdrup Jongkhar District in Bhutan.
The town is located at the south-eastern part of Bhutan and borders the Indian state of Assam. Though ...
contains
protected areas
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
. Southeastern Samdrup Jongkhar District (the ''gewogs'' of
Langchenphu,
Pemathang,
Samrang and
Serthi) contains
Khaling Wildlife Sanctuary
Jomotsangkha Wildlife Sanctuary (formerly ''Khaling Wildlife Sanctuary'') is the smallest protected area of Bhutan covering in Samdrup Jongkhar District along the southern border with Assam. Its elevations range between and . Khaling Wildlife ...
, which is connected via
biological corridor
A wildlife corridor, habitat corridor, or green corridor is an area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities or structures (such as roads, development, or logging). This allows an exchange of individuals between ...
s to
Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary
Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in Bhutan, located in Merak and Sakteng Gewogs of Trashigang District and just crossing the border into Samdrup Jongkhar District. It is one of the country's protected areas and is listed as a ...
to the north (
Trashigang District
Trashigang District ( Dzongkha: བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bkra-shis-sgang rdzong-khag''; also spelled "Tashigang") is Bhutan's easternmost dzongkhag (district).
Culture
The population of the district ...
) and
Royal Manas National Park
Royal Manas National Park is Bhutan's oldest national park, and the Royal government considers it the "conservation showpiece of the Kingdom" and a "genetic depository" for valuable plants. It has an area of and covers eastern Sarpang District ...
to the west (several districts). A small portion of northern
Lauri Gewog is part of the
Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary
Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in Bhutan, located in Merak and Sakteng Gewogs of Trashigang District and just crossing the border into Samdrup Jongkhar District. It is one of the country's protected areas and is listed as a ...
.
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 ...
*Kurmaed Province
Kurmaed Province ( Dzongkha: ཀུར་སྨད་; Wylie: ''kur-smad''; "Lower Kur") was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.
Kurmaed Province occupied lands in southeastern Bhutan. It was administered jointly with Kurtoed Provin ...
References
External links
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Districts of Bhutan
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