Districts of Bhutan
Bhutan comprises twenty districts (dzongkhag, both singular and plural).
Districts
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|---|
| 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]
| 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 |
See also
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. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
- ^ http://www.statoids.com/ybt.html
- ^ http://www.sarpang.gov.bt/newsDetail.php?id=13
- ^ http://www.pc.gov.bt/fyp/Dzongkhags/Sarpang.pdf
- ^ "An Open letter to the Bhutanese parliamentarians". AFPA News.com. 2009-11-20. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
