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Key facts
- Country
- Bhutan
- Headquarters
- Punakha
- Total
- 1,110 km (430 sq mi)
- Density
- 25.9/km (67.1/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+6 ( BTT )
- Hdi 2017
- 0.654 , medium · 7th
- Website
- www .punakha .gov .bt
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Bhutan
- Official name
- སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག
- Country
- Bhutan
- Located in
- Bhutan
- Capital
- Punakha
- Population
- 28740
- Area
- 845
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Official website
- www.bhutan.gov.bt/government/dzongkhags.php?dz_id=28
- Image
- Punakha-08-Reisterrassen-2015-gje.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Punakha District
- Commons category
- Punakha District
- native label
- སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག
- language used
- Dzongkha
- male population
- 15079
- female population
- 13661
- urban population
- 7046
- rural population
- 21694
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Encyclopedic overview
27°40′N 89°50′E / 27.667°N 89.833°E / 27.667; 89.833
Punakha District (Dzongkha: སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: spu-na-kha rdzong-khag) is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It is bordered by Thimphu, Gasa, and Wangdue Phodrang Districts. The dominant language in the district is Dzongkha, the national language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Punakha District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.