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Thimphu Dzongkhag ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག | |
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Country | Bhutan |
Headquarters | Thimphu |
Area | |
• Total | 2,067 km2 (798 sq mi) |
Population (2017) | |
• Total | 138,736 |
• Rank | 1st |
• Density | 67/km2 (170/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+6 (BTT) |
HDI (2021) | 0.832 very high · 1st |
Website | www |
Thimphu District (Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Thim-phu rdzong-khag) is a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. Thimphu is also the capital of Bhutan and the largest city in the whole kingdom.
The dominant language throughout the district is Dzongkha; however, within the capital nearly every language of Bhutan may be encountered.
Thimphu District is divided into eight gewogs and one town (Thimphu):
Lingzhi, Soe and Naro Gewogs belong to the Lingzhi Dungkhag subdistrict, the only subdistrict within Thimphu District. The remaining gewogs do not belong to any subdistrict.
Thimphu is the capital of Bhutan and Thimphu district.
The northern half of Thimphu District (the gewogs of Kawang, Lingzhi, Naro and Soe – corresponding roughly to Lingzhi Dungkhag) is subject to environmental protection, falling within Jigme Dorji National Park.
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