Chhaling Gewog (

Dzongkha Dzongkha (; ) is a Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Burman language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. It is written using the Tibetan script. The word means "the language of the fortress", from ' "fortress" and ' "language ...

: ཆ་གླིང་) is a gewog (village block) of

Monggar District Mongar District (Dzongkha: མོང་སྒར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Mong-sgar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Mongar is the fastest-developing dzongkhag in eastern Bhutan. A regional h ...

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. In 2002, the gewog contained 263 households and covered an area of 42 square kilometres. As per the database o
National Statistics Bureau
there are 273 households as of 2024.

Economy

The principal agricultural products are maize, paddy, barley, buckwheat, oranges and vegetables. More than 60% of the population have access to piped drinking water supply and 30% of the households have electricity. The gewog has a community school with 258 students but relies on Mongar for most of the facilities. The farmers of Tashipong are dependent upon spring water. The villagers mainly engage in subsistence farming but vegetable and animal products (such as cheese, butter and eggs) are sold at the market.

Politics

Administratively, Chhali Gewog is a part of the

dzongkhag The Kingdom of Bhutan is divided into 20 districts (Dzongkha: ). Bhutan is located between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India on the eastern slopes of the Himalayas in South Asia. are the primary subdivisions of Bhutan. They pos ...

Mongar District Mongar District (Dzongkha: མོང་སྒར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie transliteration, Wylie: ''Mong-sgar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Mongar is the fastest-developing dzongkhag in easter ...

. In November 2007, the people of Chhali elected former General Secretary of the

Bhutan Olympic Committee The Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC) was created on 23 November 1983 with the 4th Druk Gyalpo, King of Bhutan as its President, with its headquarters at Thimphu, Bhutan. Following this recognition, Bhutan participated for the first time in the 1984 ...

Pema Tenzin as their National Council candidate.

References

Gewogs of Bhutan Mongar District {{Bhutan-geo-stub