Mongar District

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Mongar District (Dzongkha: མོང་སྒར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Mong-sgar rdzong-khag) is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Mongar is the fastest-developing dzongkhag in eastern Bhutan. A regional hospital has been constructed and the region is bustling with many economic activities. Mongar is noted for its lemon grass, a plant that can be used to produce an essential oil. It also has a hydroelectric power-plant on the Kuri Chhu river. Mongar is notable for having the longest work time in all the dzongkhags of Bhutan.http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Final-GNH-Report-jp-21.3.17-ilovepdf-compressed.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=April 2025}}

Languages

File:View of Mongar town.jpg

File:Regional Referral Hospital Mongar Bhutan.jpgMongar is home to a variety of Bhutanese languages and dialects. In the east, the East Bodish Tshangla (Sharchopkha) is the dominant language, also used as a regional lingua franca.

Central Mongar is the only region where the East Bodish Chali language is spoken, by about at total of 8,200 people in Wangmakhar, Gorsum and Tormazhong villages, mainly in and around Chhali Gewog on the east bank of the Kuri Chhu River. Some people from Tormazhong speaks kurteop too.

Southern Mongar is likewise unique for its 1,000 Gongduk speakers living in a few inaccessible villages of Gongdue Gewog near the Kuri Chhu river. The language appears to be the sole representative of a unique branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family and retains the complex verbal agreement system of Proto-Tibeto-Burman.{{Cite web |author=Himalayan Languages Project |author-link=Himalayan Languages Project |title=Gongduk |publisher=Himalayan Languages Project |url=http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/?q=languages/gongduk |access-date=2009-11-06 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303100806/http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/?q=languages%2Fgongduk |archive-date=2012-03-03 }}{{Cite web |author=Ethnologue |author-link=Ethnologue |title=Gongduk: A language of Bhutan |publisher=SIL International |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=goe |access-date=2009-11-06}}

In southwestern Mongar, residents speak Khengkha, an East Bodish language closely related to Bumthangkha languages including Kurtöp. Bumthangkha itself is also spoken by the natives of extreme northwest Mongar. Residents of the Kuri Chhu valley of northern Mongar speak Chochangachakha language, a Central Bodish language very closely related to Dzongkha, the national language.{{cite web |url=http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:3003 |format=PDF |last=van Driem |first=George L. |author-link=George van Driem |title=Language Policy in Bhutan |publisher=SOAS |location=London |year=1993 |access-date=2011-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101084255/http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo%3A3003 |archive-date=2010-11-01 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=dka |title=Chalikha |work=Ethnologue Online |publisher=SIL International |location=Dallas |year=2006 |access-date=2011-01-18}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cgk |title=Chocangacakha |work=Ethnologue Online |publisher=SIL International |location=Dallas |year=2006 |access-date=2011-01-18}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kjz |title=Bumthangkha |work=Ethnologue Online |publisher=SIL International |location=Dallas |year=2006 |access-date=2011-01-18}}{{cite book|title=Language diversity endangered |volume=181 |series=Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, Mouton Reader |author-link=George van Driem |last=van Driem |first=George |page=312 |editor=Matthias Brenzinger |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |year=2007 |isbn=978-3-11-017050-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6p6b5GQ4Q4YC}}

Administrative divisions

Mongar is divided into seventeen village blocks (or gewogs):{{cite web |url=http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/Mongar.pdf |title=Chiwogs in Mongar |publisher=Election Commission, Government of Bhutan |year=2011 |access-date=2011-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002184557/http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/2011/finaldelimitation/Mongar.pdf |archive-date=2011-10-02 }}

Geography

The Western Mongar District contains part of the Thrumshingla National Park (the gewogs of Saling and the Tsamang) and the northeastern Mongar District contains part of the Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary (the gewog of Sharmung).{{cite web |url=http://www.bhutantrustfund.bt/parks-of-bhutan |title=Parks of Bhutan |work=Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online |publisher=Bhutan Trust Fund |access-date=2011-03-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321193941/http://www.bhutantrustfund.bt/parks-of-bhutan |archive-date=2012-03-21 }}

The Kuri Chhu river flows through the Mongar District valley. The Kuri Chhu, a major river of eastern Bhutan, is a tributary of the Manas River system, which is the largest river in Bhutan and a major tributary of the Brahmaputra River, the waterway that drains most of the eastern region.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/shop_pickandmix/previews/bhutan-3-eastern-bhutan-preview.pdf|title=Eastern Bhutan|access-date=2010-05-09|publisher=Lonely Planet|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607073544/http://www.lonelyplanet.com/shop_pickandmix/previews/bhutan-3-eastern-bhutan-preview.pdf|archive-date=2011-06-07}}

Tourism

[https://bhutanpilgrimage.com/aja-ney-a-sacred-site-of-hundred-inscriptions-of-the-syllable-aa/ Aja Ney]
Thekchok Namdrol Ugyen Choeling Dratshang, Drametse
Drakar Choeling Goenpa, Larjab
Nga Gyur Tsakaling Samten Choeling Gomdey
[https://bhutanpilgrimage.com/aja-menchu-the-medicinal-water-at-aja-ney/ Aja Menchu]
Nagtshang, Wengkhar
Sa Nga Choeling Lhakhang, Yakgang

File:Kuri Chi river flowing below the Lhuentse Dzong.jpg River]]

Climate

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|location = Mongar, elevation {{convert|1600|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1996–2017 normals)

|Jan record high C = 22.0

|Feb record high C = 25.5

|Mar record high C = 30.0

|Apr record high C = 30.0

|May record high C = 34.0

|Jun record high C = 33.0

|Jul record high C = 33.0

|Aug record high C = 34.0

|Sep record high C = 32.0

|Oct record high C = 31.5

|Nov record high C = 27.0

|Dec record high C = 22.5

|Jan record low C = -1.0

|Feb record low C = -1.0

|Mar record low C = 5.0

|Apr record low C = 7.0

|May record low C = 11.0

|Jun record low C = 13.0

|Jul record low C = 14.0

|Aug record low C = 15.0

|Sep record low C = 13.0

|Oct record low C = 8.0

|Nov record low C = 4.0

|Dec record low C = 2.0

|Jan high C = 16.7

|Feb high C = 19.1

|Mar high C = 21.9

|Apr high C = 23.6

|May high C = 25.5

|Jun high C = 26.6

|Jul high C = 26.7

|Aug high C = 27.3

|Sep high C = 26.4

|Oct high C = 24.4

|Nov high C = 20.8

|Dec high C = 17.8

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|Jan mean C = 11.3

|Feb mean C = 13.3

|Mar mean C = 16.3

|Apr mean C = 18.4

|May mean C = 20.4

|Jun mean C = 22.1

|Jul mean C = 22.4

|Aug mean C = 22.7

|Sep mean C = 21.8

|Oct mean C = 19.1

|Nov mean C = 15.4

|Dec mean C = 12.5

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|Jan low C = 5.8

|Feb low C = 7.5

|Mar low C = 10.6

|Apr low C = 13.1

|May low C = 15.2

|Jun low C = 17.6

|Jul low C = 18.1

|Aug low C = 18.1

|Sep low C = 17.1

|Oct low C = 13.7

|Nov low C = 10.0

|Dec low C = 7.2

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|rain colour = green

|Jan rain mm = 6.0

|Feb rain mm = 11.3

|Mar rain mm = 36.3

|Apr rain mm = 82.7

|May rain mm = 93.1

|Jun rain mm = 132.7

|Jul rain mm = 196.0

|Aug rain mm = 161.2

|Sep rain mm = 113.0

|Oct rain mm = 75.9

|Nov rain mm = 3.5

|Dec rain mm = 2.7

|year rain mm =

|Jan rain days = 0.9

|Feb rain days = 1.6

|Mar rain days = 5.4

|Apr rain days = 9.0

|May rain days = 9.7

|Jun rain days = 13.1

|Jul rain days = 16.8

|Aug rain days = 14.4

|Sep rain days = 10.4

|Oct rain days = 4.4

|Nov rain days = 0.9

|Dec rain days = 0.8

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| Jan humidity = 70.1

| Feb humidity = 71.4

| Mar humidity = 70.6

| Apr humidity = 74.9

| May humidity = 77.2

| Jun humidity = 83.5

| Jul humidity = 86.1

| Aug humidity = 84.5

| Sep humidity = 84.3

| Oct humidity = 75.6

| Nov humidity = 70.0

| Dec humidity = 69.6

| year humidity =

|source 1 = National Center for Hydrology and Meteorology{{cite web

| url = https://www.nchm.gov.bt/attachment/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Climate%20Data%20Book%20of%20Bhutan%2C%202018.pdf

| title = Climate Data Book of Bhutan, 2018

| publisher = National Center for Hydrology and Meteorology

| accessdate = 20 February 2025}}

|source 2 = World Meteorological Organization (rainy days 1996–2018)

{{cite web|url = https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/city.html?cityId=1276|title = World Weather Information Service – Mongar|publisher= World Meteorological Organization|access-date = 20 February 2025

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References

Category:Districts of Bhutan