Bjendag Gewog Explained

Official Name:Bjena Gewog
Native Name:སྦྱེད་ནག་
Settlement Type:Gewog
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Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Bhutan
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Wangdue Phodrang District
Unit Pref:Metric
Timezone:BTT
Utc Offset:+6

Bjendag Gewog (Dzongkha: སྦྱེད་ནག་) (or Bjena) is a gewog (village block) of Wangdue Phodrang District, དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་། Bhutan.[1] [2] The Bjendag Gewog is located 1350-3400m above sea level, 15km away from the Dzongkhag Centre. It has a population of 2470, consisting of 1220 males and 1250 females. Bjendag is considered a 'sloppy' area, as the soil is predominantly sandy loam and land use is generally dry and wet land farming. There are 5 Chiwogs in Bjendag:[3]

1) Phuentsho Gang (ཕུན་ཚོགས་སྒང)

2) Tashitokha (བཀྲིས་ཏོ་ཁ)

3) Wache (ཝ་ཅད)

4) Themakha

5) Khatokha

Houses are of mainly traditional type made up stone and wood. Their primary source of income are from cash crops such as potato and vegetables.[4]

Wache Dzong is located here.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Chiwogs in Wangdue Phodrang . PDF . . 2011 . 2011-07-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111002191701/http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/wangdue.pdf . 2011-10-02 .
  2. Web site: -. Royal Government of Bhutan. December 12, 2010.
  3. Web site: Bjena . 2024-07-11 . www.wangduephodrang.gov.bt . en.
  4. Web site: Bjena . 2024-07-11 . www.wangduephodrang.gov.bt . en.
  5. News: His Holiness consecrates Wache Dzong. 8 January 2015. Bhutan Broadcasting Service. 7 January 2015.