Shompangkha Gewog

Shompangkha Gewog
Shompangkha Gewog; ཤོམ་སྤང་ཁ་
	Gewog
Country	Bhutan
District	Sarpang District
Time zone	BTT (UTC+6)

Last updated February 22, 2019

Shompangkha Gewog (Dzongkha: ཤོམ་སྤང་ཁ་) is a gewog (village block) of Sarpang 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.

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.

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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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Senggey Gewog is a gewog of Sarpang District, Bhutan.

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References

↑ "Chiwogs in Sarpang" (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 Sarpang" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-28.

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