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List of villages in Bhutan

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List of villages in Bhutan
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Villages in Bhutan are made up of groups of individual settlements, grouped together by chiwog for election purposes. This list is based mainly on information of the Election Commission, which not necessarily follows the general usage.[1]:p. 8

Village populations vary widely, from dozens to hundreds. Generally, greater numbers of villages within chiwogs indicate lower populations in the vast majority of those villages.

Villages in Bhutan are governed directly by Gewog (village block) governments, which in turn are subordinate to Dzongkhag (district) or Dungkhag (sub-district) governments. Villages in Bhutan may be distinguished from Thromdes (municipalities), which are larger settlements not part of any Chiwog, and which may be self-governing under the Local Government Act of Bhutan 2009. This Act also provides for the redrawing of chiwog borders and regrouping of villages by the Demarcation Commission in order to define relatively equally populated single member constituencies. Village and chiwog demarcations, therefore, are subject to considerable change.[2]

Many village names are recurring, and may be shared even among neighboring settlements. Sometimes this indicates a large village spread among more than one chiwog. Geographical names frequently include: wom (Dzongkha: འོགམ་; "lower"), gom (སྒོངམ་; "upper/higher"), (kha)toed (སྟོད་; "upper [valley]"), (kha)maed (སྨད་; "lower [valley]"), nang (ནང་; "inner"), -gang (སྒང་; "hilltop, ridge"), -ling (གླིང་; "place"), -la (ལ་; "mountain pass"), -thang (ཐང་; "valley"), -pelri (དཔལ་རི་; "mountain"), -chhu (ཆུ་; "river"), and -dey (སྡེ་; "part, section").[3] Popular name parts also include choekhor (ཆོས་འཁོར་; "dharma wheel"), dekid (བདེ་སྐྱིད་; "peace"), phel (འཕེལ་; "flourish"), phuen (ཕུན་; "complete, perfect, wonderful"), tashi (བཀྲ་ཤིས་/བཀྲིས་; "auspicious"), goenpa (དགོན་པ་; "monastery"), lhakhang (ལྷ་ཁང་ "temple"), pema (པདྨ་; "lotus"), and norbu (ནོར་བུ་; "jewel").[3] Spelling variations are frequent; in government documents certain transliterations are equivalent: "oo" and "u;" "ay" and "ey;" and in some circumstances, "a" and "e."

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List of villages

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The following are lists of villages in Bhutan by District as of 2011. Slashes indicate names combined names and disambiguations. Parenthetical names are alternative designations and may reflect a Nepali name.[1]

Bumthang District

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Bumthang District
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Chukha District

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Chukha District
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Dagana District

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Dagana District
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Gasa District

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Gasa District
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Haa District

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Haa District
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Lhuntse District

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Lhuntse District
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Mongar District

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Mongar District
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Paro District

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Paro District
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Pemagatshel District

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Pemagatshel District
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Punakha District

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Punakha District
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Samdrup Jongkhar District

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Samdrup Jongkhar District
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Samtse District

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Samtse District
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Sarpang District

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Sarpang District
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Thimphu District

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Thimphu District
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Trashigang District

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Trashigang District
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Trashiyangtse District

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Trashiyangtse District
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Trongsa District

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Trongsa District
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Tsirang District

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Tsirang District
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Wangdue Phodrang District

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Wangdue Phodrang District
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Zhemgang District

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Zhemgang District
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Notes

1.^ Residents of Nubri Chiwog voted in other chiwogs during 2011 elections. It did not form its own electoral precinct.
2.^ Goentegkha Tongshingang chiwog contains voters from village(s) "unknown"

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