Bjoka Gewog

Bjoka Gewog
Bjoka Gewog; འབྱོག་ཀ་
	Gewog
Country	Bhutan
District	Zhemgang District
Time zone	BTT (UTC+6)

Last updated March 14, 2019

Bjoka Gewog (Dzongkha: འབྱོག་ཀ་) is a gewog (village block) of Zhemgang District, Bhutan.^[1]^[2] Bjoka Gewog is also a part of Panbang Dungkhag (sub-district), along with Goshing, Ngangla, and Phangkhar Gewogs.^[3]

Dzongkha, or Bhutanese, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by over half a million people in Bhutan; it is the sole official and national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan. The Tibetan alphabet is used to write Dzongkha.

Zhemgang District, is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It is bordered by Sarpang, Trongsa, Bumthang, Mongar and Samdrup Jongkhar Districts, and borders Assam in India to the south. Administrative center of the district is Zhemgang.

Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by Tibet Autonomous Region of China in the north, the Sikkim state of India and the Chumbi Valley of Tibet in the west, the Arunachal Pradesh state of India in the east, and the states of Assam and West Bengal in the south. Bhutan is geopolitically in South Asia and is the region's second least populous nation after the Maldives. Thimphu is its capital and largest city, while Phuntsholing is its financial center.

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References

↑ "Chiwogs in Zhemgang" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
↑ "-". Royal Government of Bhutan. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
↑ Dahal, Rabi C. (2010-03-22). "Fallow fields and dying trees". Bhutan Observer online. Archived from the original on 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2011-02-12.

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[1] "Chiwogs in Zhemgang" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-07-28.

[2] "-". Royal Government of Bhutan. Retrieved December 12, 2010.

[3] Dahal, Rabi C. (2010-03-22). "Fallow fields and dying trees". Bhutan Observer online. Archived from the original on 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2011-02-12.