Norgaygang 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 ...
: ནོར་རྒྱས་སྒང་) 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
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. It is located at the extreme northwest of the Samtse District bordering on India's
West Bengal
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(
Kalimpong
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) and
Sikkim
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(
East Sikkim
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) provinces. It has the
Haa District
Haa District ( Dzongkha: ཧཱ་རྫོང་ཁག; Wylie: ''Haa rzong-khag;'' alternative spellings include "Ha") is one of the 20 dzongkhag or districts comprising Bhutan. An alternative name for the district is "Hidden-Land Rice Vall ...
to the northeast and Samtse's
Tendruk Gewog to the southeast.
[Norgaygang (Bara) Gewog]
Royal Government of Bhutan, Dzongkhag Administration, Samtse, retrieved 25 October 2021.
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The Norgaygang gewog is immediately to the south of the
Zompelri ridge
Doklam (),
called Donglang ( zh, c=洞朗) by China, is an area in Chumbi Valley with a high plateau and a valley, lying between China's Yadong County to the north, Bhutan's Haa District to the east and India's Sikkim state to the west. Sinc ...
and Mount
Gipmochi
Gipmochi (Gyemo Chen or Gamochen, 'The Great Queen') is a mountain in the Lower Himalayas in south central Asia. Rising to a height of , the mountain sits on the border between the northern Indian state of Sikkim and Bhutan. China claims Gipmoc ...
, which have been subject to the
India-China-Bhutan border dispute. The
Dichu (Jaldhaka) river flows through the gewog along with its numerous tributaries. The largest of the tributaries is Asam Khola rising below the Mount Gipmochi.
The Norgaygang Gewog occupies an area of . It has 19 villages in 6 Chiwogs. In 2012, it had a population of 3,381.
[Eleventh Five-Year Plan, Samtse Dzongkhag]
Gross National Happiness Commission, Royal
Government of Bhutan, 2013, . Sec. 4 (Dzonkhag at a glance, 2012).
The Gewog comprises part of Tashicholing
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), together with
Tendu,
Pemaling,
Namgaychhoeling, and
Tashicholing Gewogs.
References
External links
Norgaygang Gewog marked on OpenStreetMap retrieved 4 December 2021.
Dichu river basin marked on OpenStreetMap retrieved 4 December 2021.
Gewogs of Bhutan
Samtse District
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