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{{short description|District of Bhutan}}
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| name = Samdrup Jongkhar district
| native_name = བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག
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}}'''Samdrup Jongkhar District''' ([[Dzongkha]]: བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག་; [[Wylie transliteration|Wylie]]: ''Bsam-grub Ljongs-mkhar rdzong-khag'') is one of the 20 [[dzongkhag]]s (districts) comprising [[Bhutan]]. The dominant languages of the district are [[Tshangla language|Tshangla (Sharchopkha)]] in the north and west, and [[Nepali language|Nepali]] in the east. It covers a total area of 1878 sq km.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Facts about Bhutan The Land of the Thunder Dragon|publisher=Absolute Bhutan Books|year=2017|pages=368|language=English}}</ref> Samdrup dzongkhag comprises two dungkhags: Jhomotsangkha and Samdrupchhoeling, and 11 gewogs.<ref name=":0" />

==Administrative divisions==
Samdrup Jongkhar District is divided into eleven village groups (or ''[[gewog]]s''):<ref name=EC>{{cite web |url=http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/sj.pdf |title=Chiwogs in Samdrup Jongkhar |publisher=Election Commission, [[Government of Bhutan]] |year=2011 |access-date=2011-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002185744/http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/sj.pdf |archive-date=2011-10-02 }}</ref>
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*[[Dewathang Gewog]]
*[[Gomdar Gewog]]
*[[Langchenphu Gewog]]
*[[Lauri Gewog]]
*[[Martshala Gewog]]
*[[Orong Gewog]]
*[[Pemathang Gewog]]
*[[Phuntshothang Gewog]]
*[[Dalim and Samrang Gewog|Samrang Gewog]]
*[[Serthi Gewog]]
*[[Wangphu Gewog]]
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==Protected areas==
[[Samdrup Jongkhar]] contains [[protected areas of Bhutan|protected areas]]. Southeastern Samdrup Jongkhar District (the ''gewogs'' of [[Langchenphu Gewog|Langchenphu]], [[Pemathang Gewog|Pemathang]], [[Samrang Gewog|Samrang]] and [[Serthi Gewog|Serthi]]) contains [[Khaling Wildlife Sanctuary]], which is connected via [[biological corridor]]s to [[Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary]] to the north ([[Trashigang District]]) and [[Royal Manas National Park]] to the west (several districts). A small portion of northern [[Lauri Gewog]] is part of the [[Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary]].<ref name=EC/><ref name=BTF1>{{cite web |url=http://www.bhutantrustfund.bt/parks-of-bhutan |title=Parks of Bhutan |work=Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online |publisher=Bhutan Trust Fund |access-date=2011-03-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702041330/http://www.bhutantrustfund.bt/parks-of-bhutan |archive-date=2011-07-02 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Districts of Bhutan]]
*[[Kurmaed Province]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Wikivoyage-inline|Samdrup Jongkhar}}
{{Districts of Bhutan}}
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