Samdrup Jongkhar District
Samdrup Jongkhar District (Dzongkha: བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Bsam-grub Ljongs-mkhar rdzong-khag) is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. The dominant languages of the district are Tshangla (Sharchopkha) in the north and west, and Nepali in the east.
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[edit] Geography
Samdrup Jongkhar is divided into eleven gewogs:[1]
[edit] Protected areas
Samdrup Jongkhar contains protected areas. Southeastern Samdrup Jongkhar (Langchenphu, Pemathang, Samrang, Serthi Gewogs) contains Khaling Wildlife Sanctuary, which is connected via biological corridors to Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary to the north (Trashigang District) and Royal Manas National Park to the west (several districts). A small portion of northern Lauri Gewog is part of the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary.[1][2]
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- ^ a b "Chiwogs in Samdrup Jongkhar" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/sj.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
- ^ "Parks of Bhutan". Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online. Bhutan Trust Fund. http://www.bhutantrustfund.bt/parks-of-bhutan. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
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Coordinates: 26°55′N 91°37′E / 26.917°N 91.617°E
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