Chukha District

Coordinates: 27°0′N 89°30′E / 27.000°N 89.500°E / 27.000; 89.500
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27°0′N 89°30′E / 27.000°N 89.500°E / 27.000; 89.500

Chukha district
ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག
District
UTC+6 (BTT)
HDI (2019)0.684[1]
medium · 4th
Websitewww.chhukha.gov.bt
View of Chukha (Mepetsa), Chukha District
View of Phuntsholing, Chukha District

Chukha District (

GDP
of the country. Also located in Chukha district are some of the country's oldest industrial companies like the Bhutan Carbide Chemical Limited (BCCL) and the Bhutan Boards Products Limited (BBPL).

Languages

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.

Administrative divisions

Chukha District is divided into eleven village blocks (or

gewogs):[3]

Environment

Chukha Dzongkhag covers 1,880 sq. km,

protected areas of Bhutan. Although much of southern Bhutan contained protected areas in the 1960s, park-level environmental protection became untenable.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  2. ^ official website of Chhukha Dzongkhag Administration http://www.chhukha.gov.bt/
  3. Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  4. ISBN 978-99936-760-0-3
    .
  5. ^ "Parks of Bhutan". Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online. Bhutan Trust Fund. Archived from the original on 2011-07-02. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
  6. ^ "The Organisation". Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online. Bhutan Trust Fund. Archived from the original on 2010-03-29. Retrieved 2011-03-26.

External links

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