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Key facts
- Country
- Bhutan
- Headquarters
- Samtse
- Total
- 1,305 km (504 sq mi)
- Density
- 47.96/km (124.2/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+6 ( BTT )
- Hdi 2019
- 0.620 , medium · 9th
- Website
- www .samtse .gov .bt
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Bhutan
- Country
- Bhutan
- Located in
- Bhutan
- Capital
- Samtse
- Population
- 62590
- Area
- 1725
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Official website
- www.bhutan.gov.bt/government/dzongkhags.php?dz_id=30
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- topic's main category
- Category:Samtse District
- Commons category
- Samtse District
- language used
- Lepcha
- native label
- བསམ་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་
- male population
- 32022
- female population
- 30568
- urban population
- 9674
- rural population
- 52916
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Encyclopedic overview
Samtse District (Dzongkha: བསམ་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག།; Wylie: Bsam-rtse rdzong-khag; older spelling "Samchi") is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It comprises two subdistricts (dungkhags): Tashicholing and Dophuchen. They are further subdivided into 15 gewogs (village blocks). The Samtse district covers a total area of 1304 km. With a population of 62,590 individuals and a population density of 48 people per sq.km, Samtse is the third most populous and second most densely populated district in Bhutan.
History and culture
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samtse District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.