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Key facts
- Country
- Bhutan
- Headquarters
- Samdrup Jongkhar
- Total
- 1,878 km (725 sq mi)
- Density
- 18.68/km (48.38/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+6 ( BTT )
- Hdi 2019
- 0.614 , medium · 11th
- Website
- www .samdrupjongkhar .gov .bt
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Bhutan
- Country
- Bhutan
- Located in
- Bhutan
- Capital
- Samdrup Jongkhar
- Population
- 35079
- Area
- 2207
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Headquarters
- Samdrup Jongkhar
- Official website
- www.bhutan.gov.bt/government/dzongkhags.php?dz_id=29
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- Category:Samdrup Jongkhar District
- Commons category
- Samdrup Jongkhar District
- language used
- Tshangla
- different from
- Samdrup Jongkhar
- male population
- 18329
- female population
- 16750
- urban population
- 12174
- rural population
- 22905
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Encyclopedic overview
Samdrup Jongkhar District (Dzongkha: བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག།; Wylie: Bsam-grub Ljongs-mkhar rdzong-khag) is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) in Bhutan. The dominant languages of the district are Tshangla (Sharchopkha) in the north and west, and Lhotsam in the east. It covers a total area of 1878 sq km. Samdrup Jongkhar Dzongkhag comprises two Dungkhags which are Jomotsangkha and Samdrupcholing, and 11 Gewogs.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samdrup Jongkhar District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.