Phuentsholing 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 ...
: ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་,''Phuentshogling Gewog'') is a
gewog (village block) of
Chukha District
Chukha District (Dzongkha: ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Chu-kha rdzong-khag''; officially spelled "Chhukha" ) is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. The major town is Phuentsholing.
Languages
In Chu ...
,
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 , ...
. The gewog has an area of 139.8 km
2 and contains 19 villages and a population of 5,183, as of 2005. Phuentsholing Gewog is part of Phuentsholing
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 ...
, along with
Dala,
Logchina Gewogs and Shampheling Gewog. It is one of the most populated gewogs in Chukha Dzongkhag.
The Gewog contains a number of sacred places includin
Rinchending Goenpa Zangdo Pelri, and Druk Namgay Choling Dratshang.
References
Gewogs of Bhutan
Chukha District
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