Key facts
- Country
- Bhutan
- Headquarters
- Dagana
- Total
- 1,713 km (661 sq mi)
- Density
- 14.57/km (37.75/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+6 ( BTT )
- Hdi 2019
- 0.607 , medium · 13th of 20
- Website
- www .dagana .gov .bt
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Bhutan
- Official name
- དར་དཀར་ན་རྫོང་ཁག་
- Country
- Bhutan
- Located in
- Bhutan
- Capital
- Daga
- Population
- 24965
- Area
- 1387
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Official website
- www.dagana.gov.bt
- Image
- View of Drujegang village in 2009.jpg
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- Category:Dagana District
- Commons category
- Dagana District
- native label
- དར་དཀར་ན་རྫོང་ཁག་
- male population
- 12956
- female population
- 12009
- urban population
- 4713
- rural population
- 20252
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Encyclopedic overview
Dagana District (Dzongkha: དར་དཀར་ནང་རྫོང་ཁག།; Wylie: dar-dkar-nang rzong-khag; also དར་དཀར་ན་རྫོང་ཁག།) is one of the 20 districts of Bhutan. Covering an area of 1,713 km (661 sq mi), it is located in the lower foothills of the mid-Himalayan ranges. The district had a population of 24,965 people as of 2017, living across 14 gewogs (village blocks). Economically, Dagana's population follows mixed subsistence agriculture and livestock rearing.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dagana District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.