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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name= Sangbay Gewog
|native_name= གསང་སྦས་
|settlement_type= [[Gewogs of Bhutan|Gewogs]]
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|pushpin_map_caption = Sangbay Gewog in Bhutan's [[Haa District]]
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'''Sangbay''' or '''Sangbaykha'''{{efn|Alternative spellings: '''Sangbe''', '''Sangbekha''',<ref name="Phuntsho"/> '''Tsangbe''',<ref name="Rennie"/>{{rp|76}} '''Sombe''', '''Sombay''' and '''Sombaykha'''.<ref name="Statistics 2010"/>}} ({{langx|dz|གསང་སྦས|gsang sbas|size=120%}})<ref name="Ardussi Ura"/> Gewog is a [[gewog]] (village block) of [[Haa District]], [[Bhutan]].<ref name="Dzongkhag"/><ref name="delimitation"/> It is one of the western gewogs of the Haa district sharing borders with the [[Samtse District]], India's [[Sikkim]] state and China's [[Chumbi Valley]] (Yadong County). The latter border has been contested by China, which claims the [[Doklam]] region as its territory. In recent years, China has begun to build villages in its claimed area.<ref name="Barnett">{{citation |first=Robert |last=Barnett |title=China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory |newspaper=Foreign Policy |date=7 May 2021 |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-villages-security-forces/}}</ref><ref name="NDTV">Vishnu Som, [https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/in-pics-chinas-bhutan-landgrab-in-bid-to-bypass-indian-defences-3173358 Pics Expose China's Inroads Near Doklam - Bid To Bypass Indian Defences?], NDTV News, 20 July 2022.</ref>

== Geography ==
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In 2013, the Eleventh Plan document reported that the gewog had an area of 432.8 square kilometres, with 97 per cent of it covered by forest.<ref name="eleventh plan"/>{{efn|The land area remained unchanged from the Ninth Plan document in 2002.<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://www.gnhc.gov.bt/fyp/Gewogs/ha_sangbay.pdf|title=Sangbay Gewog Ninth Plan (2002-2007)|publisher=Haa Dzongkhag Royal Government of Bhutan|access-date=August 25, 2010}}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
</ref>}}

The gewog mainly consists of the basin of the [[Amo Chu]] river after it enters the gewog near Sinchela. (Above this point, only the left bank of the river is included in Bhutan; the right bank belongs to China's Chumbi Valley.) The upper part of the river valley in the gewog is said to be narrow with steep ridges. It has no population centres. Most of the villages are near Sangbay, the site of a historic ''dzong'' (now in ruins). The Tule La pass ({{coord|27.1497|N|88.9854|E|name=Tule La pass}}) on the Zompelri ridge provided communication with the modern [[Samtse District]] and the [[Dalingkot]] region further west.<ref name="Rennie"/>{{rp|75}}{{efn|The territory up to the [[Dichu]] river appears to have been under the Sangbay Dzong in pre-modern times, with a deputy Dzongpön stationed at Dzongsa and [[Sipsu]].<ref name="Ardussi Ura">{{citation |first1=John |last1=Ardussi |first2=Karma |last2=Ura |title=Population and Governance in mid-18th Century Bhutan, as Revealed in the Enthronement Record of ''Thugs-sprul ’Jigs med grags pa'' I (1725-1761) |journal=Journal of Bhutan Studies |volume=2 |number=2 |year=2000 |url=https://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/publicationFiles/JBS/JBS_Vol2No2/Population%20and%20Governance%20in%20mid-18th%20Century%20Bhutan.pdf |at=Table 4 entries under Sangbay Dzongwog}}</ref><ref name="Eden">{{citation |last=Eden |first=Ashley |title=Report on the State of Bootan and on the Progress of the Mission of 1863–1864 |publisher=Government of India |year=1864 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99245/page/n83 |via=archive.org |page=67}}</ref>}} (The Dalingkot tract was ceded to British India after the [[Anglo-Bhutan War]] of 1865, and is now India's [[Kalimpong district]].)

The Zompelri ridge continues to the north in a semi-circular formation, with the Mount [[Gipmochi]] (4,427 m) at its apex. Beyond Gipmochi is India's [[Sikkim]] state. To the north of the Zompelri ridge and connecting with the [[Dongkya Range]] is the [[Doklam]] plateau, which gives rise to a tributary of Amo Chu called Torsa Nala or Doklam River. The basin of the Doklam river, termed the "Doklam region", is claimed by China as its territory.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Facts and China's Position Concerning the Indian Border Troops' Crossing of the China-India Boundary in the Sikkim Sector into the Chinese Territory |url=https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3911782-The-Facts-and-China-s-Position-Concerning-the.html |publisher=Government of China |date=1 Aug 2017 |page=9}}. Note: China uses the name "Dong Lang" for Doklam.</ref>

== Demographics ==

The population of the gewog by the 2017 census was 911.<ref>[http://www.haa.gov.bt/counter/direct_download/419 Annual Dzongkhag Statistics 2018], Haa Dzongkhag administration, 2018, p. 1</ref><ref>[https://www.citypopulation.de/en/bhutan/admin/haa/BT00505__sangbay/ Sangbay Gewog in Bhutan], citypopulation.de, retrieved 6 August 2022.</ref> The Election Commission listed 16 villages in the gewog 2011.<ref name="delimitation"/> The number of households is 183.<ref name="eleventh plan"/>

==See also==
*[[Sangbay]]

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Dzongkhag">
{{citation |title=Bji Gewog |publisher=Haa Dzongkhag Administration |url=http://www.haa.gov.bt/gewogs/bji-gewog |access-date=2 August 2022}}</ref>
<ref name="Statistics 2010">[http://202.144.146.196/publication/files/pub7fi5643tz.pdf Annual Dzongkhag Statistics 2010], Haa Dzongkhag Administration, 2010</ref>
<ref name="delimitation">{{cite web |title=Chiwogs in Haa |publisher=Election Commission, [[Government of Bhutan]] |year=2011|url=http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/Haa.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002184232/http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/Haa.pdf |archive-date=2011-10-02 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name="eleventh plan">{{citation |title=Eleventh Five-Year Plan, Haa Dzongkhag |publisher=Gross National Happiness Commission, Royal Government of Bhutan |year=2013 |id={{ISBN|978-99936-55-01-5}} |url=https://www.gnhc.gov.bt/en/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Eleventh-Five-Year-Plan-Haa-Dzongkhag.pdf |page=1}}</ref>
<ref name="Phuntsho">{{citation |last=Phuntsho |first=Karma |title=The History of Bhutan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUDAAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT405 |year=2013 |publisher=Random House India |ISBN=978-81-8400-411-3}}</ref>
<ref name="Rennie">{{citation |last=Rennie |first=Surgeon |title=Bhotan and the Dooar War |publisher=John Murray |year=1866 |url=https://archive.org/details/b29352150 |via=archive.org}}</ref>
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