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Samdrup Jongkhar district
བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག
District
Map of Samdrup Jongkhar District in Bhutan
Map of Samdrup Jongkhar District in Bhutan
CountryBhutan
HeadquartersSamdrup Jongkhar
Area
 • Total1,878 km2 (725 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)
 • Total35,079
 • Density19/km2 (48/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+6 (BTT)
HDI (2019)0.614[1]
medium · 11th
Websitewww.samdrupjongkhar.gov.bt

Samdrup Jongkhar District (Dzongkha: བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Bsam-grub Ljongs-mkhar rdzong-khag) is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) in Bhutan. The dominant languages of the district are Tshangla (Sharchopkha) in the north and west, and Lhotsam in the east. It covers a total area of 1878 sq km.[2] Samdrup Jongkhar Dzongkhag comprises two Dungkhags which are Jomotsangkha and Samdrupcholing, and 11 Gewogs.[2]

  1. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  2. ^ a b Facts about Bhutan The Land of the Thunder Dragon. Absolute Bhutan Books. 2017. p. 368.

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