Tendu or Tendruk 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 ...
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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 , ...
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The Tendruk Gewog comprises part of Sipsu
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
Bara,
Biru,
Lehereni, and
Sipsu Gewogs.
The Tendruk village is on a ridge near the confluence of the Bindu River with the
Dichu (or Jaldhaka) River. The Indo-Bhutan border meets the Dichu near this point, with the west bank of Dichu being in India (
Kalimpong district
Kalimpong district is a List of districts in India, district in the state of West Bengal, India. In 2017, it was carved out as a separate district to become the 21st district of West Bengal. The district is headquartered at Kalimpong, which g ...
) and the east bank being in Bhutan. Thus, part of the Tendruk gewog lies on the border with India. A little below the confluence is the
Bindu Dam over Dichu, which is said to be the second-oldest dam in the Indian subcontinent. There is a border crossing to India over the dam.
The Tendruk Gewog occupies an area of .
[Tendruk Gewog]
Dzonkhag Administration, Samtse. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
It has 21 villages in 5 chiwogs. In 2012, it had a population of 6,175.
[Eleventh Five-Year Plan, Samtse Dzongkhag]
Gross National Happiness Commission, Royal
Government of Bhutan, 2013, . Sec. 4 (Dzonkhag at a glance, 2012).
References
External links
Tendruk Gewog marked on OpenStreetMap retrieved 25 October 2021.
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Gewogs of Bhutan
Samtse District