Dagana District Explained

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Dagana District
Native Name:དར་དཀར་ནག་རྫོང་ཁག་
Settlement Type:District
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Bhutan
Seat Type:Headquarters
Seat:Dagana
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Total Km2:1,723
Population Total:24,965
Population As Of:2017
Population Density Km2:auto
Blank Name Sec2:HDI (2019)
Blank Info Sec2:0.607[1]
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Timezone1:BTT
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Dagana District is a district located in Bhutan. Most of the district is populated by Dzongkha speakers. However, in the southwest part near the Sarpang District, Nepali is also spoken as a native language.

Administrative divisions

Dagana District itself is divided into fourteen village blocks (or gewogs):

Environment

Like most of the districts of Bhutan, Dagana contains environmentally protected areas. In southeastern Dagana that is along the border with India, lies the western half of Phibsoo Wildlife Sanctuary, covering parts of Karmaling, Lhamoy Zingkha and Nichula Gewogs. Phibsoo has no human inhabitants.[2] [3] It has districts that are habituated by Nepali speaking people. Daga Zong can be reached only by one single passage.

History

On April 26, 2007, Lhamoy Zingkha Dungkhag (sub-district) was formally handed over from Sarpang Dzongkhag to Dagana Dzongkhag,[4] having an impact on three gewogs (Lhamoy Zingkha, Deorali and Nichula (Zinchula) and the town of Lhamoy Zingkha, which formed the westernmost part of Sarpang Dzongkhag and now forms the southernmost part of Dagana Dzongkhag.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab. hdi.globaldatalab.org. en. 2018-09-13.
  2. Web site: Parks of Bhutan . Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online . Bhutan Trust Fund . 2011-03-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110702041330/http://www.bhutantrustfund.bt/parks-of-bhutan . 2011-07-02 .
  3. Web site: Chiwogs in Dagana . . 2011 . 2011-07-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193802/http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/Dagana.pdf . 2016-03-04 . dead .
  4. Web site: News Detail . Sarpang Dzongkhag Administration . 2011-01-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080319174041/http://www.sarpang.gov.bt/newsDetail.php?id=13 . 2008-03-19 .
  5. http://www.pc.gov.bt/fyp/Dzongkhags/Sarpang.pdf{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}