Gelephu

Gelephu
དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་
Thromde
Gelephu is located in Bhutan
Gelephu
Gelephu
Location in Bhutan
Coordinates: 26°52′14″N 90°29′8″E / 26.87056°N 90.48556°E / 26.87056; 90.48556
Country Bhutan
DistrictSarpang District
Gelephu ThromdeJuly 2010
Government
 • ThromponTshering Norbu
 • DrangponKarma Dorji
Area
 • Thromde11.5 km2 (4.4 sq mi)
 • Urban
11.52 km2 (4.45 sq mi)
Elevation
221 m (725 ft)
Population
 (2017)
 • Thromde9,858
 • Density860/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+6 (BTT)
Websitegcc.bt/node/1

Gelephu (Dzongkha: དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུ་; Wylie: dge-legs-phu), also spelled as Gelyephug, Gelegphu,[1] Gaylegphug, or Gaylephug,[2] (IATA: GLU) is a town or Thromde[3] in Sarpang District in Bhutan.[4] It is located on the Indian border, about 30 km to the east of Sarpang, the Dzongkhag (District) headquarters,[5] and has a population of 9,858 as per the 2017 census.[6] It is one of the border market and road entry points into Bhutan from India;[7] Phuntsholing to its west and Samdrup Jongkhar to its east are two other border market road entry points into Bhutan.

  1. ^ see information provided by the Sarpang Dzongkhag Administration: http://www.sarpang.gov.bt/?page_id=434
  2. ^ see "Change of name of Post Offices in Bhutan" by Leo van der Velden in Postal Himal no.162, 2nd Quarter 2015 http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/postalhimal/pdf/PH_2015_002.pdf
  3. ^ Gelephu Thromde website http://www.gcc.bt/ Archived 2014-10-23 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  5. ^ "Gelephu Structural Plan: Foreword". Gelephu Structural Plan. Archived from the original on 2010-03-13. Retrieved 2010-10-11.
  6. ^ "Bhutan: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population". World Gazetteer. Retrieved 2008-07-11.[dead link]
  7. ^ An Ethnographic Insight on Border-Markets: Reflections from the Indo-Bhutan Border, sadf.eu, accessed 23 October 2024.