Sagteng Gewog (Dzongkha: སག་སྟེང་, romanizedsag steng), also called Sakteng is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.[1][2]

Sagteng Gewog
སག་སྟེང་
Gewog
Location of Sagteng Gewog
Country Bhutan
DistrictTrashigang District
Time zoneUTC+6 (BTT)

Sakteng Gewog office was established in 2005 with an area of 910 sq.km, which is located under Trashigang Dzongkhag where this area comprises nomadic people. The area is also a protected area where one of Bhutan’s wildlife conservation area which consist of rare blue poppies and people mainly depend on the livestock’s products for their living.[3] Merak Gewog is within Sakten Dungkhag.The people usually speak a local language called Jyops and their neighbours call it Brahmilo.[4] Much of the gewog lies within the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Chiwogs in Trashigang" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Gross National Happiness Commission". Royal Government of Bhutan. Archived from the original on 19 May 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  3. ^ བཟང་པོ།, བསོད་ནམས་; ཆོས་སྒྲོན།, ལས་སྐྱིད་ (18 June 2023). "བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་ཨུ་རྫོ་རོང་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ལུ་ས་ཉེན་གྱིི་ཉིནམ་བརྩི་སྲུང་ཞུ་སྲོལ།". Rig-mdzod Dus-deb. 1. doi:10.17102/rigzoedjournal.clcs.rub.1.005. ISSN 2959-8273.
  4. ^ Phuntsho, Karma (2018). The History Of Bhutan (second ed.). India: Penguin Random House India. p. 55. ISBN 9788184007671.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. ^ "Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary (SWS)". www.wwfbhutan.org.bt. Retrieved 23 July 2024.