Orong Gewog

Orong Gewog or Jangchubling Gewog
Orong Gewog or Jangchubling Gewog; ཨོ་རོང་
	Gewog
Country	Bhutan
District	Samdrup Jongkhar District
Time zone	BTT (UTC+6)

Last updated April 30, 2019

Orong Gewog (Dzongkha: ཨོ་རོང་) is a gewog (village block) of Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan. Orong Gewog is situated north of Samdrup Jongkhar town. The Gewog is about 45 km away from Samdrup Jongkhar with a 12 km farm road bifurcating from the national highway which connects Samdrup Jongkhar and Trashigang District.

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.

Samdrup Jongkhar District is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. The dominant languages of the district are Tshangla (Sharchopkha) in the north and west, and Nepali in the east.

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.

The Gewog is a collection of many villages mostly located over a gentle slope facing the Arong Mithun Breeding center. The Gewog has 6 Chiwogs and 24 villages with a total of 540 households. Important villages includes Gonpa, Thongsa, Mantsang, Therpung, Durtsun, Belam, Mitseshing, Milum, Chongti, Malang, Susung,....etc. Other important villages which are further away includes Mencheri, Philuma, Morong, Wooling and Rimung.

Orong Higher Secondary High School is the only higher Secondary School in the District which is located on the top of the Orong Village overlooking Dewathang. Orong has a Basic Health Unit, A community Lhakhang, Gewog Office. Electrification is 100 %. ^[1]^[2]

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References

↑ "Chiwogs in Samdrup Jongkhar" (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.

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[1] "Chiwogs in Samdrup Jongkhar" (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.