Samdrup Jongkhar district
བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག | |
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District | |
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[1] medium · 11th |
Website | www |
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]