Lhuntse District
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dzongkhag
Key facts
- Country
- Bhutan
- Headquarters
- Lhuntse
- Total
- 1,944 km (751 sq mi)
- Density
- 7.426/km (19.23/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+6 ( BTT )
- Hdi 2019
- 0.605 , medium · 14th of 20
- Website
- lhuentse .gov .bt
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Bhutan
- Country
- Bhutan
- Located in
- Bhutan
- Contains
- Tsenkhar Gewog
- Capital
- Lhuntse
- Population
- 14437
- Area
- 2881
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Official website
- www.bhutan.gov.bt/government/dzongkhags.php?dz_id=24
- Image
- Khoma village, Lhuntse Dzongkha.jpg
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- language used
- Dzala
- Commons category
- Lhuntse District
- topic's main category
- Category:Lhuntse District
- male population
- 7407
- female population
- 7030
- urban population
- 2275
- rural population
- 12162
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Encyclopedic overview
27°40′N 91°0′E / 27.667°N 91.000°E / 27.667; 91.000
Lhuentse District (Dzongkha: ལྷུན་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག།; Wylie: Lhun-rtse rdzong-khag; previously "Lhuntshi", and officially spelled Lhuentse ) is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) in Bhutan. It consists of 2506 households. Located in the northeast, Lhuentse is one of the least developed dzhongkhags of Bhutan. There are few roads, the first gas station was opened in September 2005, electricity is not well distributed, and the difficult terrain makes distribution of social welfare problematic. Despite its favorable climate, farming is hindered by the lack of infrastructure.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lhuntse District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.