Chukha District

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

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[1] medium · 4th
Website	www.chhukha.gov.bt

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 which is the gateway city along the sole road which connects India to western Bhutan (cf. Lateral Road). Chukha is the commercial and the financial capital of Bhutan. With Bhutan's oldest hydropower plant, Chukha hydel (completed in 1986–88), and Tala Hydroelectricity Project, the country's largest power plant, Chukha is the dzongkhag which contributes the most to the GDP of the country. Also located in Chukha district are some of the country's oldest industrial companies like the Bhutan Carbide Chemical Limited (BCCL) and the Bhutan Boards Products Limited (BBPL).