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Punakha District

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Punakha District

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dzongkhag

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

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Wikidata facts

Official name
སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག
Country
Bhutan
Located in
Bhutan
Capital
Punakha
Population
28740
Area
845
Time zone
UTC+06:00
Image
Punakha-08-Reisterrassen-2015-gje.jpg
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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.

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