Sherzhong Gewog གསེར་གཞོང་ | |
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Gewog | |
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District | Sarpang District |
Time zone | BTT (UTC+6) |
Sherzhong Gewog (Dzongkha: གསེར་གཞོང་) is a gewog (village block) of Sarpang District, Bhutan. [1] [2] Serzhong Gewog, together with Bhur, Taklai, and Gelephu Gewogs, belongs to Gelephu Dungkhag.
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.
Sarpang 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.
Bhutan comprises twenty districts.
Dagana District is populated mostly by Dzongkha speakers, however in the southwest near Sarpang District, Nepali is also spoken as a native language.
A gewog, in the past also spelled as geog, refers to a group of villages in Bhutan. The head of a gewog is called a gup. Gewogs form a geographic administrative unit below dzongkhag districts, and above Dzongkhag Thromde class B and Yenlag Thromde municipalities. Dzongkhag Thromde class A municipalities have their own independent local government body.
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Taklai Gewog is a former gewog of Sarpang District, Bhutan. Taklai Gewog, together with Serzhong, Bhur, and Gelephu Gewogs, belongs to Gelephu Dungkhag.
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Gelephu Airport is located in Samtenling Gewog, about three kilometres from Gelephu town in Sarpang District, Bhutan. The airport has been constructed on an area spanning over 500 acres and came into regular use in late 2017. It is one of only four airports in Bhutan.
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