Sakteng Gewog Explained

Official Name:Sagteng Gewog
Native Name:སག་སྟེང་
Settlement Type:Gewog
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Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Bhutan
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Trashigang District
Unit Pref:Metric
Timezone:BTT
Utc Offset:+6

Sagteng Gewog (Dzongkha: སག་སྟེང་|sag steng|size=150%), also called Sakteng is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.[1] [2]

Sakteng Gewog office was established in 2005 with an area of 910 sq.km, which is located under Trashigang Dzongkhag where this area comprises nomadic people. The area is also a protected area where one of Bhutan’s wildlife conservation area which consist of rare blue poppies and people mainly depend on the livestock’s products for their living.[3] Merak Gewog is within Sakten Dungkhag.The people usually speak a local language called Jyops and their neighbours call it Brahmilo.[4] Much of the gewog lies within the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Chiwogs in Trashigang . . 2011 . 28 July 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111002191009/http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/tgang.pdf . 2 October 2011 .
  2. Web site: Gross National Happiness Commission . Royal Government of Bhutan . 7 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080519230944/http://www.gnhc.gov.bt/ . May 19, 2008.
  3. བཟང་པོ། . བསོད་ནམས་ . ཆོས་སྒྲོན། . ལས་སྐྱིད་ . 2023-06-18 . བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་ཨུ་རྫོ་རོང་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ལུ་ས་ཉེན་གྱིི་ཉིནམ་བརྩི་སྲུང་ཞུ་སྲོལ། . Rig-mdzod Dus-deb . 1 . 10.17102/rigzoedjournal.clcs.rub.1.005 . 2959-8273.
  4. Book: Phuntsho, Karma . The History Of Bhutan . 2018 . Penguin Random House India . 2018 . 9788184007671 . second . India . 55.
  5. Web site: Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary (SWS) . 2024-07-23 . www.wwfbhutan.org.bt . en.