Tsangkha Gewog

Tsangkha Gewog
Tsangkha Gewog
	Gewog
	Coordinates: 27°02′00″N90°02′00″E / 27.03333°N 90.03333°E
Country	Bhutan
District	Dagana District
Time zone	UTC+6 (BTT)

Last updated October 02, 2019

Tsangkha Gewog is a gewog (village block) of Dagana District, Bhutan.^[1]

Dagana District is populated mostly by Dzongkha speakers, however in the southwest near Sarpang District, Nepali is also spoken as a native language.

Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by the Tibetan 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 Indian 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 Dagana" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-07-28.

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[1] "Chiwogs in Dagana" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-07-28.