| Chukha district | |
| Native Name: | ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག |
| Settlement Type: | District |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Bhutan |
| Seat Type: | Headquarters |
| Seat: | Chukha |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 1,880 |
| Population Total: | 68,966 |
| Population As Of: | 2017 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Blank Name Sec2: | HDI (2019) |
| Blank Info Sec2: | 0.684[1] · 4th |
| Timezone1: | BTT |
| Utc Offset1: | +6 |
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.
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.
Chukha District is divided into eleven village blocks (or gewogs):[3]
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]
Chukha contains Bhutan's oldest hydropower plant, Chukha hydel (completed in 1986–88), and Tala Hydroelectricity Project, the country's largest power plant.