Soe Gewog

Lingzhi Gewog

Lingzhi is one of the most remote gewogs in Bhutan, located in the northwestern highlands of Thimphu District near the Tibetan border. Accessible only by multi-day trek, it is home to semi-nomadic yak-herding communities and the historic Lingzhi Yugyal Dzong.

Shaba Gewog

Shaba is a gewog in Paro District, western Bhutan, covering 76.4 square kilometres at elevations between 2,200 and 2,850 metres. It is home to the Dra Karpo and Dongkala pilgrimage sites and has a population of 5,941.

Dagala Gewog

Dagala Gewog is a high-altitude gewog in Thimphu District, Bhutan, named after the Dagala Range. Known for the Dagala Thousand Lakes Trek, alpine meadows, and yak herding, the gewog covers 85 square kilometres and supports a small community of approximately 178 households whose livelihoods depend primarily on livestock.

Wangchang Gewog

Wangchang Gewog is a prosperous agricultural gewog in Paro District, western Bhutan. Located centrally within the dzongkhag and adjacent to the Paro College of Education, it covers 34.2 square kilometres of rice paddies, apple orchards, and forested hillsides at elevations between 2,200 and 2,340 metres.

Modernisation of Education in Bhutan

The introduction of modern secular education in Bhutan from 1961 onwards represents one of the most rapid educational transformations in Asian history, taking the country from near-zero literacy and no secular schools to near-universal primary enrolment within a single generation.

Bhutan–India Relations in the 1960s–1980s

The three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s were the foundational period of the modern Bhutan–India relationship, during which Indian development assistance, road construction, and military cooperation transformed Bhutan from an isolated mountain kingdom into a modernising state.

Naja Gewog

Naja is a gewog in southern Paro District, western Bhutan, covering 151.8 square kilometres with 22 villages. It borders Haa District and has a population of approximately 3,002, with an economy based on vegetable farming, organic agriculture, and livestock.

Pallas's Cat in Bhutan

Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul), also known as the manul, is a small high-altitude wild cat that was confirmed as a Bhutanese species only in 2012, when camera traps in Wangchuck Centennial National Park and Jigme Dorji National Park photographed individuals for the first time. Records remain rare, with the country sitting at the southern edge of the species' range.

Raven as Bhutan's National Bird

The common raven (Corvus corax tibetanus) is the national bird of Bhutan and the religious emblem of the Bhutanese monarchy. Its iconography is rooted in the protector deity Gonpo Jarog Dongchen, the raven-headed form of Mahakala, and it crowns the Druk Gyalpo's ceremonial Raven Crown.

Dopshari Gewog

Dopshari Gewog is a gewog in Paro District, western Bhutan, occupying the valley between central Paro and Paro International Airport. It is home to Jangtsa Dumtseg Lhakhang, a 15th-century temple in chorten form built by the iron-bridge builder Thangtong Gyalpo.

The Problem Was Never the Home Care

A magazine investigation has tallied hundreds of millions of Ohio Medicaid dollars paid to home-care companies and grouped the operators by the Nepali surname Adhikari, presenting a last name as a criminal network. BhutanWiki researched our own community's corner of this story honestly. The documented failure is not home care, and it is not an ethnic group — it is Ohio's oversight design: a verification system the state left optional, and a watchdog the state abolished. Real fraud should be prosecuted by name, with evidence; collective guilt by surname should be refused.

Genekha Gewog

Genekha Gewog is a rural block in Thimphu Dzongkhag, Bhutan, about an hour's drive south of the capital. Known for its production of prized matsutake and chanterelle mushrooms, it hosts the annual Genekha Matsutake Mushroom Festival and serves as the starting point for the Dagala Thousand Lakes Trek.

Soe Gewog

Soe Gewog is a remote highland block in the far north of Thimphu Dzongkhag, Bhutan, under Lingzhi Dungkhag and bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region. Lying at altitudes from around 3,800 metres to over 5,000 metres at the foot of Jomolhari, it is the smallest gewog in the country by population, with a yak-herding community of about 200 people. Several of Bhutan's major trekking routes pass through it.

Druk Holding and Investments

Druk Holding and Investments (DHI) is the commercial and investment arm of the Royal Government of Bhutan, functioning as the country's sovereign wealth fund and state holding company. Established in 2007, DHI manages the government's portfolio of state-owned enterprises and strategic investments, with the mandate of maximising long-term value for the Bhutanese people.

Jomolhari Trek

The Jomolhari Trek is one of Bhutan's most popular and iconic trekking routes, a challenging 8-9 day journey from Paro to Thimphu via the base camp of Mount Jomolhari (7,326 metres) through the pristine wilderness of Jigme Dorji National Park. Reaching a maximum elevation of approximately 4,930 metres at the Nyile La pass, the trek passes through alpine meadows, yak herder camps, blue sheep habitat, and some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in the Himalayas.

Jomolhari

Jomolhari (also spelled Chomolhari) is a mountain on the border between Bhutan and Tibet, standing at 7,326 metres (24,035 feet). Considered one of Bhutan's most sacred peaks and the abode of the goddess Jomo, it is the centrepiece of one of the country's most popular trekking routes, the Jomolhari Trek, which passes through Jigme Dorji National Park.

National Pension and Provident Fund (Bhutan)

The National Pension and Provident Fund (NPPF) is the autonomous statutory body that administers Bhutan's pension and provident fund schemes for civil servants, armed forces personnel and employees of state-owned and joint-sector corporations. Established as an autonomous agency in March 2000 and operationalised under the National Pension and Provident Fund Plan in July 2002, it is one of Bhutan's largest institutional investors, with total assets of Nu 65 billion and around 68,000 active members at the end of 2023.

Thimphu District

Thimphu District (Dzongkha: ཐིམ་ཕུ་རྫོང་ཁག) is the most populous of Bhutan's twenty dzongkhags and contains the national capital, Thimphu. It serves as the political, economic, and administrative centre of the Kingdom of Bhutan, housing the seat of government, the royal palace, and the majority of the country's international organisations and diplomatic missions.

Blue Sheep in Bhutan

The bharal or Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur) is a wild caprine of Bhutan's northern alpine zone and the principal prey species of the snow leopard. Although classed by the IUCN as Least Concern globally, in Bhutan it is closely monitored for its role in supporting snow leopard conservation. Surveys in Jigme Dorji and Wangchuck Centennial National Parks have placed local densities among the highest recorded in the eastern Himalaya.