Samdrup Jongkhar District

Samdrup Jongkhar district

བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག
Samdrup Jongkhar district བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག
District
	Map of Samdrup Jongkhar District in Bhutan
Country	Bhutan
Headquarters	Samdrup Jongkhar
Area
• Total	1,878 km2 (725 sq mi)
Population (2017)
• Total	35,079
• Density	19/km2 (48/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+6 (BTT)
HDI (2019)	0.614; medium · 11th
Website	www.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]

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

[GlobalDataLab-1] "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.

[:0-2] Facts about Bhutan The Land of the Thunder Dragon. Absolute Bhutan Books. 2017. p. 368.

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