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Districts of Bhutan
No.	Dzongkhag (District)	Former spelling	Dzongkha	Romanization^{[note 1]}	Dsongdey (Zone)
1.	Bumthang		བུམ་ཐང་	Bºumtha	Southern
2.	Chukha	Chhukha	ཆུ་ཁ་	Chukha	Western
3.	Dagana	Dhakana, Tagana, Daga	དར་དཀར་ནང་	Dºagana	Central
4.	Gasa		མགར་ས་	Gâsa	Central
5.	Haa	Ha	ཧད་ / ཧཱ་	Hâ	Western
6.	Lhuntse	Lhuntshi	ལྷུན་རྩེ་	Lhüntsi	Eastern
7.	Mongar	Monggar, Mongor	མོང་སྒར་	Mongga	Eastern
8.	Paro		སྤ་གྲོ་	Paro	Western
9.	Pemagatshel	Pemagatsel, Pema Gatshel	པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་	Pemagatshä	Eastern
10.	Punakha		སྤུ་ན་ཁ་	Punakha	Central
11.	Samdrup Jongkhar		བསཾ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་	Samdru Jongkha	Eastern
12.	Samtse	Samchi	བསམ་རྩེ་	Samtsi	Western
13.	Sarpang	Geylegphug, Gaylegphug, Gelephu (Sarbhang)	གསར་སྦང་	Sarbang	Southern
14.	Thimphu		ཐིམ་ཕུག་	Thimphu	Western
15.	Trashigang	Tashigang	བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་	Trashigang	Eastern
16.	Trashiyangtse		བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་	Trashi'yangtse	Eastern
17.	Trongsa	Tongsa	ཀྲོང་གསར་	Trongsa	Southern
18.	Tsirang	Chirang	རྩི་རང་	Tsirang	Central
19.	Wangdue Phodrang	Wangdi Phodrang	དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་	'Wangdi Phodrºa	Central
20.	Zhemgang	Shemgang	གཞལ་སྒང་	Zhºämgang	Southern

^ Used by the Dzongkha Development Commission, reflecting pronunciation^{[citation needed]}

District Statistics

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

District Statistics
No.	Dzongkhag (District)	Capital	Area km²	Population 2005	Density	Dsongdey (Zone)	Dungkhag^[3] (Sub- districts)	Gewog	Towns
1.	Bumthang	Jakar	2,490	16,116	6.5	Southern	-	4	5
2.	Chukha	Phuentsholing	1,991	74,387	37.4	Western	1	11	6
3.	Dagana	Daga	1,276	18,222	14.3	Central	-	11	4
4.	Gasa	Gasa	4,089	3,116	0.8	Central	-	4	1
5.	Haa	Ha	1,319	11,648	8.8	Western	-	5	1
6.	Lhuntse	Lhuntshi	2,881	15,395	5.3	Eastern	-	8	2
7.	Mongar	Mongar	1,638	37,069	22.6	Eastern	-	16	4
8.	Paro	Paro	1,693	36,433	21.5	Western	-	10	2
9.	Pemagatshel	Pemagatsel	593	13,864	23.4	Eastern	-	7	7
10.	Punakha	Punakha	845	17,715	21.0	Central	-	9	1
11.	Samdrup Jongkhar	Samdrup Jongkhar	2,207	39,961	18.1	Eastern	3	11	5
12.	Samtse	Samtse	1,725	60,100	34.8	Western	2	16	3
13.	Sarpang	Geylegphug	2,048	41,549	20.3	Southern	2	15	3
14.	Thimphu	Thimphu	1,617	98,676	61.0	Western	1	10	1
15.	Trashigang	Tashigang	2,171	51,134	23.6	Eastern	3	16	6
16.	Trashiyangste	Tashi Yangtse	1,459	17,740	12.2	Eastern	-	8	2
17.	Trongsa	Tongsa	1,815	13,419	7.4	Southern	-	5	1
18.	Tsirang	Damphu	632	18,667	29.5	Central	-	12	1
19.	Wangdue Phodrang	Wangdue Phodrang	4,181	31,135	7.4	Central	-	15	3
20.	Zhemgang	Zhemgang	2,146	18,636	8.7	Southern	1	8	3
	Bhutan	Thimphu	38,816	634,982	16.4		13	201	61

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)	Capital	Area km²	Population 2005	Density	Dzongkhag (Districts)
Central	Damphu	11,023	88,855	8.1	5
Eastern	Mongar	10,949	175,163	16.0	6
Southern	Geylegphug	8,499	89,720	10.6	4
Western	Thimphu	8,345	281,244	33.7	5
Bhutan	Thimphu	38,816	634,982	16.4	20

References

^ "Delimitation". Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
^ "Fact Sheet – Population and Housing Census of Bhutan" (PDF). Bhutan National Statistics Bureau. 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-09-13. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Statoids
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-03-19. Retrieved 2011-01-23. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Pc.gov.bt^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "An Open letter to the Bhutanese parliamentarians". AFPA News.com. 2009-11-20. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-04-24. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

External links

Official links to Dzongkhag of Bhutan

[2] Used by the Dzongkha Development Commission, reflecting pronunciation^{[citation needed]}

[1] "Delimitation". Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-31.

[3] "Fact Sheet – Population and Housing Census of Bhutan" (PDF). Bhutan National Statistics Bureau. 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-09-13. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[4] Statoids

[5] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-03-19. Retrieved 2011-01-23. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[6] Pc.gov.bt^{[permanent dead link]}

[7] "An Open letter to the Bhutanese parliamentarians". AFPA News.com. 2009-11-20. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-04-24. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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+The results of the 2005 census appear below:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nsb.gov.bt/pub/phcb/PHCBfactsheet2005.pdf |title=Fact Sheet – Population and Housing Census of Bhutan |publisher=Bhutan National Statistics Bureau |year=2005 |format=PDF |accessdate=2011-09-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706163151/http://www.nsb.gov.bt/pub/phcb/PHCBfactsheet2005.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-06 |df= }}</ref>
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-* On April 26, 2007 Lhamozingkha Dungkhag (subdistrict) was formally handed over from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag.,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sarpang.gov.bt/newsDetail.php?id%3D13 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-01-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319174041/http://www.sarpang.gov.bt/newsDetail.php?id=13 |archivedate=2008-03-19 |df= }}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.pc.gov.bt/fyp/Dzongkhags/Sarpang.pdf Pc.gov.bt]</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.apfanews.com/opinion/an-open-letter-to-the-bhutanese-parliamentarians/ |title=An Open letter to the Bhutanese parliamentarians |publisher=AFPA News.com |date=2009-11-20 |accessdate=2011-04-24}}</ref>
+* On April 26, 2007 Lhamozingkha Dungkhag (subdistrict) was formally handed over from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag.,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sarpang.gov.bt/newsDetail.php?id%3D13 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-01-23 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319174041/http://www.sarpang.gov.bt/newsDetail.php?id=13 |archivedate=2008-03-19 |df= }}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.pc.gov.bt/fyp/Dzongkhags/Sarpang.pdf Pc.gov.bt]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.apfanews.com/opinion/an-open-letter-to-the-bhutanese-parliamentarians/ |title=An Open letter to the Bhutanese parliamentarians |publisher=AFPA News.com |date=2009-11-20 |accessdate=2011-04-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723151644/http://www.apfanews.com/opinion/an-open-letter-to-the-bhutanese-parliamentarians/ |archivedate=2011-07-23 |df= }}</ref>
 ==Zone Statistics==

v t e Districts (dzongkhags) of Bhutan
Central	Dagana Gasa Punakha Tsirang Wangdue Phodrang
Southern	Bumthang Sarpang Trongsa Zhemgang
Western	Chukha Haa Paro Samtse Thimphu
Eastern	Lhuntse Mongar Pemagatshel Samdrup Jongkhar Trashigang Trashiyangtse

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