Districts of Bhutan

Bhutan comprises twenty districts (dzongkhag, both singular and plural).

Districts

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Districts of Bhutan
No.Dzongkhag
(District)		Former spellingDzongkhaRomanization[note 1]Dsongdey
(Zone)
1.Bumthangབུམ་ཐང་BºumthaSouthern
2.ChukhaChhukhaཆུ་ཁ་ChukhaWestern
3.DaganaDhakana, Tagana, Dagaདར་དཀར་ནང་DºaganaCentral
4.Gasaམགར་ས་GâsaCentral
5.HaaHaཧད་ / ཧཱ་HâWestern
6.LhuntseLhuntshiལྷུན་རྩེ་LhüntsiEastern
7.MongarMonggar, Mongorམོང་སྒར་MonggaEastern
8.Paroསྤ་གྲོ་ParoWestern
9.PemagatshelPemagatsel, Pema Gatshelཔདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་PemagatshäEastern
10.Punakhaསྤུ་ན་ཁ་PunakhaCentral
11.Samdrup Jongkharབསཾ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་Samdru JongkhaEastern
12.SamtseSamchiབསམ་རྩེ་SamtsiWestern
13.SarpangGeylegphug, Gaylegphug, Gelephu (Sarbhang)གསར་སྦང་SarbangSouthern
14.Thimphuཐིམ་ཕུག་ThimphuWestern
15.TrashigangTashigangབཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་TrashigangEastern
16.Trashiyangtseབཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་Trashi'yangtseEastern
17.TrongsaTongsaཀྲོང་གསར་TrongsaSouthern
18.TsirangChirangརྩི་རང་TsirangCentral
19.Wangdue PhodrangWangdi Phodrangདབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་'Wangdi PhodrºaCentral
20.ZhemgangShemgangགཞལ་སྒང་ZhºämgangSouthern
  1. ↑ Used by the Dzongkha Development Commission, reflecting pronunciation

District Statistics

The results of the 2005 census appear below:[2]

District Statistics
No.Dzongkhag
(District)		CapitalArea
km²		Population
2005		DensityDsongdey
(Zone)		Dungkhag[3]
(Sub-
districts)		GewogTowns
1.BumthangJakar2,49016,1166.5Southern-45
2.ChukhaPhuentsholing1,99174,38737.4Western1116
3.DaganaDaga1,27618,22214.3Central-114
4.GasaGasa4,0893,1160.8Central-41
5.HaaHa1,31911,6488.8Western-51
6.LhuntseLhuntshi2,88115,3955.3Eastern-82
7.MongarMongar1,63837,06922.6Eastern-164
8.ParoParo1,69336,43321.5Western-102
9.PemagatshelPemagatsel59313,86423.4Eastern-77
10.PunakhaPunakha84517,71521.0Central-91
11.Samdrup JongkharSamdrup Jongkhar2,20739,96118.1Eastern3115
12.SamtseSamtse1,72560,10034.8Western2163
13.SarpangGeylegphug2,04841,54920.3Southern2153
14.ThimphuThimphu1,61798,67661.0Western1101
15.TrashigangTashigang2,17151,13423.6Eastern3166
16.TrashiyangsteTashi Yangtse1,45917,74012.2Eastern-82
17.TrongsaTongsa1,81513,4197.4Southern-51
18.TsirangDamphu63218,66729.5Central-121
19.Wangdue PhodrangWangdue Phodrang4,18131,1357.4Central-153
20.ZhemgangZhemgang2,14618,6368.7Southern183
 BhutanThimphu38,816634,98216.4 1320161
  • On April 26, 2007 Lhamozingkha Dungkhag (subdistrict) was formally handed over from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag.,[4] affecting three gewog (Lhamozingkha, Deorali and Nichula (Zinchula) and the town of Lhamozingkha), which formed the westernmost part of Sarpang Dzongkhag and now form the southernmost part of Dagana Dzongkhag.[5] This is change is not reflected in the table above. Since 2008, Bhutan has redrawn many of its other borders, both internal and international, with the result of creating a no man's land, later claimed by China, out of the Northern Basin area of Gasa District.[6]

Zone Statistics

Dzongdey
(Zone)		CapitalArea
km²		Population
2005		DensityDzongkhag
(Districts)
CentralDamphu11,02388,8558.15
EasternMongar10,949175,16316.06
SouthernGeylegphug8,49989,72010.64
WesternThimphu8,345281,24433.75
BhutanThimphu38,816634,98216.420

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Delimitation". Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-10-05. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
  2. ↑ "Fact Sheet – Population and Housing Census of Bhutan" (PDF). Bhutan National Statistics Bureau. 2005. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
  3. ↑ "Bhutan Subdistricts". www.statoids.com.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-03-19. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
  5. ↑ Pc.gov.bt
  6. ↑ "An Open letter to the Bhutanese parliamentarians". AFPA News.com. 2009-11-20. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
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