- Source: Chukha District
Chukha District (Dzongkha: ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Chu-kha rdzong-khag; officially spelled "Chhukha" ) is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. The major town is Phuentsholing.
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):
Environment
Chukha Dzongkhag covers 1,880 sq. km, but unlike most other districts, Chukha, along with Samtse, contain no protected areas of Bhutan. Although much of southern Bhutan contained protected areas in the 1960s, park-level environmental protection became untenable.
Infrastructure
Chukha contains Bhutan's oldest hydropower plant, Chukha hydel (completed in 1986–88), and Tala Hydroelectricity Project, the country's largest power plant.
See also
Districts of Bhutan
Dungna
Paro Province
Daga Province
References
External links
Official Dzhongkha profile with a map of gewogs
Five year plan (2002–2007)
Travel diary from Phuentsholing
Urban problems in Phuentsholing From RAO Online
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Chukha District
- Chukha
- Samtse District
- Paro District
- Tamang people
- List of villages in Bhutan
- Bongo
- Phuntsholing
- Tala Hydroelectric Power Station
- Tashi Group
