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Glossary · term

Gewog

A gewog is a block — the sub-district administrative division below the dzongkhag in Bhutan’s local-government structure. The country has 205 gewogs in total, distributed across the twenty dzongkhags. Each gewog has an elected Gup (head) and Mangmi (deputy).

See also: Dzongkhag, Chiwog.

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