Dophoogchen Gewog Explained

Official Name:Dophoogchen Gewog
Other Name:Dorokha Gewog
Native Name:རྡོ་ཕུག་ཅན་
Settlement Type:Gewogs
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Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Bhutan
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Samtse District
Unit Pref:Metric
Timezone:BTT
Utc Offset:+6

Dophoogchen Gewog (Dzongkha: རྡོ་ཕུག་ཅན་|translit=rdo phug cen ), or Dorokha Gewog, is a gewog (village block) of Samtse District, Bhutan.[1] Dophoogchen Gewog is part of Dophoogchen Dungkhag (sub-district), which comprise Dorokha and Denchukha Gewogs.

The people here speak Lhotshamkha and are predominantly Hindus. It is connected with road from Samtse town, Phuntsholing, and Haa via Tergola. The nearest town, and district headquarters, is Samtse, about 3 hours driven from the Drungkhag.

The road newtworks connect most of the remote parts of the Geog, including Sengdhyen, a Doya or Lhop community.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Chiwogs in Samtse . PDF . . 2011 . 2011-07-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111002185843/http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/Samtse.pdf . 2011-10-02 . dead .