Deothang, also known as Dewathang, is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares ...
in south-eastern
Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountai ...
which falls under
Samdrup Jongkhar District
Samdrup Jongkhar District (Dzongkha: བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bsam-grub Ljongs-mkhar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. The dominant language ...
. In 2010 it became part of Samdrup Jongkhar municipality (
thromde
A thromde ( Dzongkha: ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་; Wylie: ''khrom-sde'') is a second-level administrative division in Bhutan. The legal administrative status of thromdes was most recently codified under the Local Government Act of 2009, and the ...
).
Geography
Dewathang is located in
Samdrup Jongkhar District
Samdrup Jongkhar District (Dzongkha: བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bsam-grub Ljongs-mkhar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. The dominant language ...
at an altitude of 870 metres (2855 feet).
It is 18 km away from the Dzongkhag Administration.The Gewog is bordered by Orong Gewog in the North, Phuntshothang Gewog in the East, Pemagatshel Dzongkhag in the West and Assam in the South. It consists of 23 villages with 352 households with a total population of 3091.
Institutions
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Jigme Namgyal Engineering College
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Garpawoong Middle Secondary School
Dungsam Academy#
Dewathang Primary School
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Rikhey Primary School
Chokyi Gyatso InstituteLhomon EducationSamdrup Jongkhar Initiative# Command Center,
Royal Bhutan Army
The Royal Bhutan Army (RBA; dz, བསྟན་སྲུང་དམག་སྡེ་, bStan-srung dmag-sde) is a branch of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Bhutan responsible for maintaining the country's territorial integrity and sovereign ...
# Dewathang Hospital
Notable People
# Mingbo Dukpa Minister of education 2013-2016
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Neten Zangmo (
Dasho
Dasho ( Dzongkha: དྲག་ཤོས; Wylie: ''Drag-shos'') (lit. Excellent One) is a Bhutanese honorific that is bestowed upon individuals, along with a red scarf kabney
A kabney ( Dzongkha: བཀབ་ནེ་; Wylie: ''bkab-ne'') is a ...
) - Incumbent President of
Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party and Chairperson of th
Anti-Corruption Commission of Bhutan
# Ugyen Chhewang -
Auditor General of Bhutan (2005 - 2015)
# Karma Sherab Tobgyal -
Thrompon -
Samdrup Jongkhar Thromde
A thromde ( Dzongkha: ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་; Wylie: ''khrom-sde'') is a second-level administrative division in Bhutan. The legal administrative status of thromdes was most recently codified under the Local Government Act of 2009, and the ...
(2013–present)
#
Kezang Dorji - Rapper/Social Worker
# Sangay Lhendup - National Council contestant for
Samdrup Jongkhar District
Samdrup Jongkhar District (Dzongkha: བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bsam-grub Ljongs-mkhar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. The dominant language ...
2008 & 2013.
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References
Populated places in Bhutan
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