Lumang Gewog

Lumang Gewog
Lumang Gewog; ཀླུ་མང་
	Gewog
Country	Bhutan
District	Trashigang District
Time zone	BTT (UTC+6)

Last updated April 20, 2019

Lumang Gewog (Dzongkha: ཀླུ་མང་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.^[1]^[2] Lumang and Khaling Gewogs comprise Wamrong Dungkhag (sub-district).^[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.

Trashigang District is Bhutan's easternmost dzongkhag (district).

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 East 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 Trashigang" (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.
↑ Rinchen, Sonam (2008-01-19). "Teenage pregnancy: remote schools concerned". Bhutan Observer online. Archived from the original on 2011-01-20. Retrieved 2011-02-12.

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[1] "Chiwogs in Trashigang" (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] Rinchen, Sonam (2008-01-19). "Teenage pregnancy: remote schools concerned". Bhutan Observer online. Archived from the original on 2011-01-20. Retrieved 2011-02-12.