Information about Thimphu District

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Location of Thimphu dzongkhag within Bhutan


Thimphu ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག་ is a district of Bhutan. It is also the capital of Bhutan and the largest city in the whole kingdom.

Thimphu dzongkhag is divided into ten gewogs:

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Thimphu (Tibetan script: ཐིམ་ཕུག།) is the capital of Bhutan, and also the name of the surrounding valley and dzongkhag, the Thimphu District.
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A gewog (Dzongkha "block") refers to a group of villages in Bhutan and thus forms an intermediate geographic administrative unit between village and dzongkhag. The country is comprised of 201 gewogs, which average 230 km² in area.
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Haa ཧཱ་རྫོང་ཁག་(alternative spelling Ha) is one of the 20 dzongkhag or districts comprising Bhutan.
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Lhuntseལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་ , previously Lhuntshi, is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. It consists of 2506 households (Royal Government, Ninth Plan, pg.
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Punakha (སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan.
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Samdrup Jongkhar བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག་ is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan.
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Sarpangགསར་སྤང་རྫོང་ཁག་(or Geylegphug) is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan.
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Trashigang བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང , also spelled Tashigang, is Bhutan's easternmost district.

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Trashiyangste གཡང་ཙེ is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan.

Trashiyangste is divided into eight gewogs:
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  • Ramjar Gewog
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Trongsa ཀྲོང་གསར་རྫོང་ཁག་ is one of the districts of Bhutan. It is the most central district of Bhutan and the geographic centre of Bhutan is located within it.
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Tsirangརྩི་རང་རྫོང་ཁག་, previously Chirang, is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan.Tsirang is noted for its gentle slopes and mild climates.
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Wangdue Phodrang དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག་ (previously spelled Wangdi Phodrang) is a dzongkhag
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Zhemgang གཞལམ་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་ , previously Shemgang, is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan.
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