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Bumthang District
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Key facts
- Country
- Bhutan
- Headquarters
- Jakar
- Total
- 2,717 km (1,049 sq mi)
- Density
- 6.559/km (16.99/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+6 ( BTT )
- Hdi 2019
- 0.661 , medium · 6th
- Website
- www .bumthang .gov .bt
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
27°45′N 90°40′E / 27.750°N 90.667°E / 27.750; 90.667
Bumthang District (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་རྫོང་ཁག།; Wylie: Bum-thang rzong-khag) is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. It contains numerous temples and Buddhist sacred sites. The district is divided into four village blocks (or gewogs), each corresponding to a major glacial valley: Choekor, Tang, Ura, and Chhume. The latter valley is also called Bumthang, lending its name to the whole district.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bumthang District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.