Chukha District

Chukha district

ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག
Chukha district ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག
District
	Chukha Dzong
	Map of Chukha District in Bhutan
Country	Bhutan
Headquarters	Chukha
Area
• Total	1,880 km2 (730 sq mi)
Population (2017)
• Total	68,966
• Density	37/km2 (95/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+6 (BTT)
HDI (2019)	0.684; medium · 4th
Website	www.chhukha.gov.bt

27°0′N 89°30′E / 27.000°N 89.500°E / 27.000; 89.500

Chukha District (Dzongkha: ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Chu-kha rdzong-khag; officially spelled "Chhukha" ^[2]) is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. The major town is Phuentsholing.

Languages

In Chukha, the main native languages are Dzongkha, the national language, and Nepali, spoken by the Lhotshampa in the south. The Bhutanese Lhokpu language, spoken by the Lhop minority, is also present in the southwest along the border with Samtse District.

Administrative divisions

Chukha District is divided into eleven village blocks (or gewogs):^[3]

Environment

Chukha Dzongkhag covers 1,880 sq. km,^[4] but unlike most other districts, Chukha, along with Samtse, contain no protected areas of Bhutan. Although much of southern Bhutan contained protected areas in the 1960s, park-level environmental protection became untenable.^[5]^[6]

Infrastructure

Chukha contains Bhutan's oldest hydropower plant, Chukha hydel (completed in 1986–88), and Tala Hydroelectricity Project, the country's largest power plant.

References

^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
^ official website of Chhukha Dzongkhag Administration http://www.chhukha.gov.bt/
^ "Chiwogs in Chukha" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
^ Wanggchuk, Lily (2017). Facts About Bhutan The land of the Thunder Dragon. Bhutan: Absolute Bhutan Books. p. 290. ISBN 978-99936-760-0-3.
^ "Parks of Bhutan". Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online. Bhutan Trust Fund. Archived from the original on 2011-07-02. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
^ "The Organisation". Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online. Bhutan Trust Fund. Archived from the original on 2010-03-29. Retrieved 2011-03-26.

External links

Official Dzhongkha profile^{[permanent dead link‍]} with a map of gewogs
Five year plan (2002–2007)
Travel diary from Phuentsholing
Urban problems in Phuentsholing From RAO Online

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

[2] website of Chhukha Dzongkhag Administration http://www.chhukha.gov.bt/

[3] "Chiwogs in Chukha" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-07-28.

[4] Wanggchuk, Lily (2017). Facts About Bhutan The land of the Thunder Dragon. Bhutan: Absolute Bhutan Books. p. 290. ISBN 978-99936-760-0-3.

[BTF1-5] "Parks of Bhutan". Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online. Bhutan Trust Fund. Archived from the original on 2011-07-02. Retrieved 2011-03-26.

[BTF2-6] "The Organisation". Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online. Bhutan Trust Fund. Archived from the original on 2010-03-29. Retrieved 2011-03-26.

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