Chukha District (

Dzongkha Dzongkha (; ) is a Sino-Tibetan 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". , Dzongkha had 171,080 n ...

: ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Chu-kha rdzong-khag''; also spelled "Chhukha") is one of the 20

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 ...

(districts) comprising Bhutan. The major town is

Phuentsholing Phuntsholing, also spelled as Phuentsholing ( dz, ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་), is a border town in southern Bhutan and is the administrative seat of Chukha District. The town occupies parts of both Phuentsholing Gewog and Sampheli ...

which is the gateway city along the sole road which connects India to western Bhutan (cf. Lateral Road). Chukha is the commercial and the financial capital of Bhutan. With Bhutan's oldest hydropower plant, Chukha hydel (completed in 1986–88), and

Tala Hydroelectricity Project Tala Hydroelectric Power Station is a run-of-the-river type hydroelectric power station on the Wangchu River in Chukha District, Bhutan. The station consists of a tall gravity dam which diverts water through a long headrace tunnel to the power s ...

, the country's largest power plant, Chukha is the

which contributes the most to the GDP of the country. Also located in Chukha district are some of the country's oldest industrial companies like the Bhutan Carbide Chemical Limited (BCCL) and the Bhutan Boards Products Limited (BBPL).

Languages

In Chukha, the main native languages are

, the national language spoken by Ngalop people in the north, and Lhotshampa in the south. The Bhutanese Lhokpu language, spoken by the Lhop minority, is also present in the southwest along the border with Samtse District.

Administrative divisions

Chukha District is divided into eleven village blocks (or '' gewogs''): * Bjacho Gewog *

Bongo Gewog Bongo Gewog (Dzongkha Dzongkha (; ) is a Sino-Tibetan 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". , ...

* Chapcha Gewog * Dala Gewog * Dungna Gewog * Geling Gewog * Getena Gewog *

Logchina Gewog Logchina Gewog (Dzongkha: ལོག་ཅི་ན་,''Loggchina Gewog'') is a gewog (village block) of Chukha District, Bhutan. The gewog has an area of 70.4 square kilometres and contains 12 villages. Logchina Gewog is part of Phuentsholing ...

* Metakha Gewog *

Phuentsholing Gewog Phuentsholing Gewog (Dzongkha Dzongkha (; ) is a Sino-Tibetan 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 ' "lang ...

Sampheling Gewog Sampheling Gewog (Dzongkha: བསམ་འཕེལ་གླིང་,''Samphelling Gewog'') is a gewog (village block) of Chukha District, Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhuta ...

Environment

Chukha Dzongkhag covers a total area of 1880 sq. km, but unlike most other districts, Chukha, along with Samtse, contain no protected areas of Bhutan. Although much of southern Bhutan contained protected areas in the 1960s, park-level environmental protection became untenable.

References

External links

Official ''Dzhongkha profile''
with a map of gewogs

From RAO Online {{Bhutan-geo-stub Districts of Bhutan

Languages

Administrative divisions

Environment

See also

References

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