Dophoogchen Gewog (), or Dorokha Gewog, is a gewog (village block) of

Samtse District 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''): Ta ...

Bhutan Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, in the Eastern Himalayas between China to the north and northwest and India to the south and southeast. With a population of over 727,145 and a territory of , ...

. Dophoogchen Gewog is part of Dophoogchen

Dungkhag A dungkhag (་ ''drungkhak'') is a sub-district of a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. The head of a dungkhag is a ''Dungpa''. As of 2007, nine of the twenty dzongkhags had from one to three dungkhags, with sixteen dungkhags in total. History Und ...

(sub-district), which comprise Dorokha and Denchukha Gewogs. The people here speak '' Lhotshamkha'' and are predominantly Hindus. It is connected with road from Samtse town, Phuntsholing, and Haa via ''Tergola''. The nearest town, and district headquarters, is

Samtse Samtse is a town and the headquarters of the Samtse District in Bhutan. The population of the town was 5,396 as of 2017. The population of the Samtse district was 60,100 at the 2005 census. Samtse is close to the Bhutan–India border. Across t ...

, about 3 hours driven from the Drungkhag. The road networks connect most of the remote parts of the Geog, including Sengdhyen, a Doya or Lhop community.

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*Armington, S. (2002) ''Bhutan.'' (2nd ed.) Melbourne: Lonely Planet. Gewogs of Bhutan Samtse District {{Bhutan-geo-stub