Dzongkhag

Bumtang

Chukha

Dagana

Gusa

Haa

Lhunce

Mongar

Paro

Pemagacel

Punakha

Samdrup-Jonghar

Male

Sarpang

Thimphu

Trashigang

Trashyangtsa

Trongsa

Tsirang

Wangdi Pkhodrang

Zhemgang

Dzongkhagi Bhutan ^[1]

Dzongkhag ( dzong-ke རྫོང་ ཁག ། , wiley rjong-khag , lat. Dzongkhag ) is the administrative-territorial unit of Bhutan of the first level of subordination. Dzongkhagi are divided into 205 gevogs ( English gewogs ). Some of the larger dzongkhagas have one or more intermediate units called dungkhags , which are also subdivided into gevogs. The Parliament of Bhutan adopted the "Law on Local Government" , which indicates the status, structure and leadership of local authorities, including the Dzongkhag ^[2] ^[3] .

Content

1 Dzongkhagi
2 History
3 Dzongkhag management
4 notes

Dzongkhagi

No.	Dzongkhag	Official name (in English) ^[4]	Previous or other names (in English) ^[5]	dzong ke	Romanization ¹	Dzongdei
one.	Bumtang	Bumthang		བུམ་ ཐང་	Boomtha	South
2.	Wangdi Pkhodrang	Wangdue phodrang	Wangdi Phodrang , Andguphodang, Wangdue, Wangdue Phodrang, Wangdupotrang, Wangü-Phodrang	དབང་ འདུས་ ཕོ་བྲང་	'Wangdi Phodrºa	Central
3.	Gusa	Gasa		མགར་ ས་	Gâsa	Central
four.	Dagana	Dagana	Dhakana, Tagana, Daga	དར་ དཀར་ ནང་	Dagana	Central
5.	Zhemgang	Zhemgang	Shemgang	གཞལ་ སྒང་	Zhºämgang	South
6.	Lhunce	Lhuentse	Lhuntshi , Lhuntsi, Lhuntse	ལྷུན་ རྩེ་	Lhüntsi	Oriental
7.	Mongar	Mongar	Monggar, Mongor	མོང་ སྒར་	Mongga	Oriental
8.	Paro	Paro	Rinpung	སྤ་ གྲོ་	Paro	West
9.	Pemagacel	Pema gatshel	Pemagatsel , Pemagatshel	པདྨ་ དགའ་ ཚལ་	Pemagatshä	Oriental
10.	Punakha	Punakha	Punaka	སྤུ་ ན་ ཁ་	Punakha	Central
eleven.	Samdrup-Jonghar	Samdrup jongkhar	Samdrup, Samdrup Jongkha	བསཾ་ གྲུབ་ ལྗོངས་ མཁར་	Samdru jongkha	Oriental
12.	Male	Samtse	Samchi	བསམ་ རྩེ་	Samtsi	West
13.	Sarpang	Sarpang	Geylegphug, Gaylegphug, Gelephu (Sarbhang)	གསར་ སྦང་	Sarbang	South
fourteen.	Trongsa	Trongsa	Tongsa	ཀྲོང་ གསར་	Trongsa	South
fifteen.	Trashigang	Trashigang	Tashigang	བཀྲ་ ཤིས་ སྒང་	Trashigang	Oriental
16.	Trashyangtsa	Trashiyangtse	Tashi Yangtse, Trashi Yangtse, Trashiyangtsi, Trashiyangste	བཀྲ་ ཤིས་ གཡང་ རྩེ་	Trashi'yangtse	Oriental
17.	Thimphu	Thimphu	Tashi Chho Dzong, Thimbu	ཐིམ་ ཕུག་	Thimphu	West
eighteen.	Haa	Haa	Ha	ཧད་ / ཧཱ་	Ha	West
19.	Tsirang	Tsirang	Chirang	རྩི་ རང་	Tsirang	Central
twenty.	Chukha	Chhukha	Chukha	ཆུ་ ཁ་	Chukha	West

¹ used by Dzongkha Development Authority (reflects pronunciation)

Eastern Dzongdei Western Dzongdei Central Dzongdei Southern Dzongdei

History

Administrative division of Bhutan from 1987 to 1992 (18 dzongkhagas - there was no Trashiyangtsa and Gusa )

Until 1956, there were nine districts in Bhutan headed by penlops : Byakar, Dukye, Ha, Paro, Punakha, Tagana, Thimbu, Tongsa and Wangdi-Pkhodrang. Later, the country was divided into dzongkhagi . In 1987, the territory of the Gus dzongkhag was divided between the Punakha and Thimphu dzongkhagi, and the Chukkha dzongkhag was formed from parts of the Samce , Paro and Thimphu dzongkhag. In 1992, the Gus dzongkhag was isolated from the Punakha dzongkhag, and Trashiyangtse was isolated from the Trashigang dzongkhag ^[5] .

Dzongkhagi of Bhutan in the four dzongdei (2000): Oriental South Central West

Dzongkhag Management

Each dzongkhag is headed by the head of the administration of the dzongdag . Initially, the Dzong Dagi were appointed by the King of Bhutan , but since 1982 they have been appointed by the Royal Civil Service Commission. Dzongdag manages the entire development of the dzonghag through its administration. He is assisted by a dzongrab ( English dzongrab ; assistant to the head of administration), Dzongkhag Yargye Tshogchungs , which consist of representatives of the population and administrative officials of the dzongkhag, and Gapes ( English Gups ), elected from gevogs . On the initiative of the fourth King of Bhutan, Jigme Singh Wangchuk , a process of decentralization of the government began in 1981, which led to the formation of The Dzongkhag Yargye Tshogchung (DYT; district development committees) in each dzonghag. The DYT of each dzongkhag consists of dzongkhag officials, heads and representatives of gevogs and dungkhag .

The 2008 constitution laid down the basic provisions on the dzongkhag tsogdu (district councils) in each dzongkhag. In addition, it streamlines the role of the Dzongkhag in the judicial system of Bhutan ^[6] .

Notes

↑ Delimitation (neopr.) . Election Commission, Government of Bhutan (2011). Date of treatment July 31, 2011. Archived on October 5, 2012.
↑ Local Government Act of Bhutan 2007 . Government of Bhutan (July 31, 2007). Date of treatment October 20, 2011. Archived July 30, 2012.
↑ Local Government Act of Bhutan 2009 . Government of Bhutan (September 11, 2009). Date of treatment October 20, 2011. Archived July 27, 2012.
↑ Official codes of Bhutan administrative structure (inaccessible link)
↑ ¹ ² Districts of Bhutan
↑ The Constitution of Bhutan . Date of treatment October 20, 2011. Archived July 27, 2012.

[1] Delimitation (neopr.) . Election Commission, Government of Bhutan (2011). Date of treatment July 31, 2011. Archived on October 5, 2012.

[С3-2] Local Government Act of Bhutan 2007 . Government of Bhutan (July 31, 2007). Date of treatment October 20, 2011. Archived July 30, 2012.

[3] Local Government Act of Bhutan 2009 . Government of Bhutan (September 11, 2009). Date of treatment October 20, 2011. Archived July 27, 2012.

[Official_codes-4] Official codes of Bhutan administrative structure (inaccessible link)

[statoids_Districts-5] ¹ ² Districts of Bhutan

[6] The Constitution of Bhutan . Date of treatment October 20, 2011. Archived July 27, 2012.