Norbugang Gewog (Samtse)

Norbugang Gewog
Norbugang Gewog; ནོར་བུ་སྒང་
	Gewogs
Country	Bhutan
District	Samtse District
Time zone	BTT (UTC+6)

Last updated April 28, 2019

Norbugang Gewog (Dzongkha: ནོར་བུ་སྒང་) is a gewog (village block) of Samtse District, Bhutan.^[1]

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.

Samtse District is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan.

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 Samtse" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-28.

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[1] "Chiwogs in Samtse" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-28.