Dagana District
27°0′N 89°55′E / 27.000°N 89.917°E
Dagana District
དར་དཀར་ནང་རྫོང་ཁག། | |
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Map of Dagana District in Bhutan | |
| Country | Bhutan |
| Headquarters | Dagana |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,713 km2 (661 sq mi) |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 24,965 |
| • Density | 14.57/km2 (37.75/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+6 (BTT) |
| HDI (2019) | 0.607 medium · 13th of 20 |
| Website | www |
Dagana District (Dzongkha: དར་དཀར་ནང་རྫོང་ཁག།; Wylie: dar-dkar-nang rzong-khag; also དར་དཀར་ན་རྫོང་ཁག།) is one of the 20 districts of Bhutan. Covering an area of 1,713 km2 (661 sq mi), it is located in the lower foothills of the mid-Himalayan ranges. The district had a population of 24,965 people as of 2017, living across 14 gewogs (village blocks). Economically, Dagana’s population follows mixed subsistence agriculture and livestock rearing.