Semjong Gewog

Semjong Gewog
Semjong Gewog; སེམས་ལྗོངས་
	Gewog
Country	Bhutan
District	Tsirang District
Time zone	BTT (UTC+6)

Last updated February 21, 2019

Semjong Gewog (Dzongkha: སེམས་ལྗོངས་) is a gewog (village block) of Tsirang District, Bhutan.^[1]^[2]

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.

Tsirang District, is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) of Bhutan. The administrative center of the district is Damphu

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 Tsirang" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
↑ "-". Royal Government of Bhutan. Retrieved December 12, 2010.

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

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