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Punakha District

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AdministrativeArea district_of_bhutan Q587062

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
district of Bhutan
Official website
www.bhutan.gov.bt[18]
Native label
སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག
Official name
སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག[21]

Location

Country
Bhutan[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 27.617°, 89.867°[17]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Bhutan[2]

Population and size

Area
+845
Female population
+8726, +13661[22]
Male population
+8989, +15079
Population
+17715, +28740[19][20]

Codes

Located in time zone
UTC+06:00[16]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata UTC+06:00 GeoNames Asia/Thimphu edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
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Capital
Punakha[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Barp Gewog, Chhubu Gewog, Dzomi Gewog, Goenshari Gewog, Guma Gewog, Kabjisa Gewog, Lingmukha Gewog, Shenga Bjime Gewog, Talog Gewog, Toepisa Gewog, Toewang Gewog[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Bhutan/Punakha
Language used
Lunana, Laya, Dzongkha
Rural population
+15423, +21694
Urban population
+2292, +7046
🏷️ Also known as
en Punakha District ar مقاطعة بوناخا de Punakha el Πουνάκχα es Distrito de Punakha fa ناحیه پوناخا he פונקה hi पुनाखा जिला hu Punakha körzet id Distrik Punakha it distretto di Punakha ja プナカ県 ko 푸나카현 pl Dystrykt Punakha ru Пунакха th เขตปูนาคา vi Quận Punakha zh 普那卡宗
🔖 Identifiers · 15
VIAF cluster ID
144574290
Library of Congress authority ID
no99068731
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Punakha-08-Reisterrassen-2015-gje.jpg ↗
FAST ID
1338187
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
BT15
Freebase ID
/m/039py5
GNS Unique Feature ID
220711
GeoNames ID
1337288
INaturalist place ID
12625
ISO 3166-2 code
BT-23
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007498927005171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
3899612
Show all 15 identifiers +3
Quora topic ID
Punakha
Topic's main category
Category:Punakha District
Who's on First ID
85669531

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 8
Punakha, Tongshanjiabu, Chhubu Gewog, Pajo, Barp Gewog, Goenshari Gewog, Guma Gewog, Shenga Bjime Gewog
Contains the administrative territorial entity 5
Chhubu Gewog, Barp Gewog, Goenshari Gewog, Guma Gewog, Shenga Bjime Gewog
Language used 3
Dzongkha, Laya, Lunana
← Indigenous to 3
Dzongkha, Laya, Lunana
People born here 2
Dorji Wangmo, Tshering Yangdon
Capital 1
Punakha
Country 1
Bhutan
Instance of 1
district of Bhutan
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Bhutan
Located in time zone 1
UTC+06:00
Topic's main category 1
Category:Punakha District
← Capital of 1
Punakha
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Punakha District
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Bhutan
← Depicts 1
Module:Location map/data/Bhutan Punakha
← FactGrid item ID 1
Adamowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship
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Summary

Punakha District is a district of Bhutan[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Punakha District covers an area of {'amount': '+845'}[23].

Related Entities

Bhutan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · ~2026-52123-42 · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Rural population → {'amount': '+15423'}, {'amount': '+21694'}
    Population → —
    Coordinate location → {'latitude': 27.616667, 'longitude': 89.866667}
    Instance of → —
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ OpenStreetMap relation ID: 3899612"
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