Bhutan comprises twenty districts (dzongkhag, both singular and plural). Their grouping into four zones (dzongdey), Eastern, Southern, Central and Western (blue, pink, yellow and green on the map besides), is not official anymore.
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Districts
| No. | Dzongkhag (District) |
Former spelling | Dzongkha | Romanization 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. | Trashiyangste | 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 |
1 used by Dzongkha Development Authority (reflects pronunciation)
District Statistics
| No. | Dzongkhag (District) |
Capital | Area km² |
Population 2005 |
Density | Zone | Dungkhag[1] (Sub- districts) |
Gewog | Towns |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Bumthang | Jakar | 2490 | 16116 | 6.5 | Southern | - | 4 | 5 |
| 2. | Chukha | Chhukha | 1991 | 74387 | 37.4 | Western | 1 | 11 | 6 |
| 3. | Dagana | Daga | 1276 | 18222 | 14.3 | Central | - | 11 | 4 |
| 4. | Gasa | Gasa | 4089 | 3116 | 0.8 | Central | - | 4 | 1 |
| 5. | Haa | Ha | 1319 | 11648 | 8.8 | Western | - | 5 | 1 |
| 6. | Lhuntse | Lhuntshi | 2881 | 15395 | 5.3 | Eastern | - | 8 | 2 |
| 7. | Mongar | Mongar | 1638 | 37069 | 22.6 | Eastern | - | 16 | 4 |
| 8. | Paro | Paro | 1693 | 36433 | 21.5 | Western | - | 10 | 2 |
| 9. | Pemagatshel | Pemagatsel | 593 | 13864 | 23.4 | Eastern | - | 7 | 7 |
| 10. | Punakha | Punakha | 845 | 17715 | 21.0 | Central | - | 9 | 1 |
| 11. | Samdrup Jongkhar | Samdrup Jongkhar | 2207 | 39961 | 18.1 | Eastern | 3 | 11 | 5 |
| 12. | Samtse | Samtse | 1725 | 60100 | 34.8 | Western | 2 | 16 | 3 |
| 13. | Sarpang | Geylegphug | 2048 | 41549 | 20.3 | Southern | 2 | 15 | 3 |
| 14. | Thimphu | Thimphu | 1617 | 98676 | 61.0 | Western | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 15. | Trashigang | Tashigang | 2171 | 51134 | 23.6 | Eastern | 3 | 16 | 6 |
| 16. | Trashiyangste | Tashi Yangtse | 1459 | 17740 | 12.2 | Eastern | - | 8 | 2 |
| 17. | Trongsa | Tongsa | 1815 | 13419 | 7.4 | Southern | - | 5 | 1 |
| 18. | Tsirang | Damphu | 632 | 18667 | 29.5 | Central | - | 12 | 1 |
| 19. | Wangdue Phodrang | Wangdi Phodrang | 4181 | 31135 | 7.4 | Central | - | 15 | 3 |
| 20. | Zhemgang | Zhemgang | 2146 | 18636 | 8.7 | Southern | 1 | 8 | 3 |
| Bhutan | Thimphu | 38816 | 634982 | 16.4 | 13 | 201 | 61 |
[1] Only seven districts have subdistrics (dungkhag), and in only one of them (Sarpang) do the subdistricts cover all of the district territory.
On April 26th 2007 Lhamozingkha Dungkhag (subdistrict) was formally handed over from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag.[2], 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 southermost part of Dagana Dzongkhag.[3] This is change is not reflected in the table above.
Zone Statistics
| Dzongdey (Zone) |
Capital | Area km² |
Population 2005 |
Density | Dzongkhag (Districts) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central | Damphu | 11023 | 88855 | 8.1 | 5 |
| Eastern | Mongar | 10949 | 175163 | 16.0 | 6 |
| Southern | Geylegphug | 8499 | 89720 | 10.6 | 4 |
| Western | Thimphu | 8345 | 281244 | 33.7 | 5 |
| Bhutan | Thimphu | 38816 | 634982 | 16.4 | 20 |
See also
References
- ^ http://www.statoids.com/ybt.html
- ^ http://www.sarpang.gov.bt/newsDetail.php?id=13
- ^ http://www.pc.gov.bt/fyp/Dzongkhags/Sarpang.pdf
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