Toepisa Gewog

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Toepisa Gewog
སཏོད་པའི་ས་
Gewog
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CountryFlag of Bhutan.svg  Bhutan
District Punakha District
Time zone BTT (UTC+6)

Toepisa Gewog (Dzongkha: སཏོད་པའི་ས་) is a gewog (village block) of Punakha District, Bhutan. [1] It used to be part of Thimphu District. [2]

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References

  1. "Chiwogs in Punakha" (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.