Districts of Bhutan
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Bhutan comprises twenty districts (dzongkhag, both singular and plural). Their grouping into four zones (dzongdey), Eastern, Southern, Central and Western (blue, pink, yellow and green on the map above), is not official anymore.
| No. | District | Former spelling | Bhutanese | Romanization used by Dzongkha Development Authority (reflects pronunciation) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Bumthang | བུམ་ཐང་ | Bºumtha | ||
| 2. | Chukha | Chhukha | ཆུ་ཁ་ | Chukha | |
| 3. | Dagana | དར་དཀར་ནང་ | Dºagana | ||
| 4. | Gasa | མགར་ས་ | Gâsa | ||
| 5. | Haa | ཧད་ / ཧཱ་ | Hâ | ||
| 6. | Lhuntse | Lhuntshi | ལྷུན་རྩེ་ | Lhüntsi | |
| 7. | Mongar | མོང་སྒར་ | Mongga | ||
| 8. | Paro | སྤ་གྲོ་ | Paro | ||
| 9. | Pemagatshel | Pemagatsel | པདྨ་དགའ་ཚལ་ | Pemagatshä | |
| 10. | Punakha | སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ | Punakha | ||
| 11. | Samdrup Jongkhar | བསཾ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་ | Samdru Jongkha | ||
| 12. | Samtse | Samchi | བསམ་རྩེ་ | Samtsi | |
| 13. | Sarpang | གསར་སྦང་ | Sarbang | ||
| 14. | Thimphu | ཐིམ་ཕུག་ | Thimphu | ||
| 15. | Trashigang | Tashigang | བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་ | Trashigang | |
| 16. | Trashiyangste | བཀྲ་ཤིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ | Trashi'yangste | ||
| 17. | Trongsa | Tongsa | ཀྲོང་གསར་ | Trongsa | |
| 18. | Tsirang | Chirang | རྩི་རང་ | Tsirang | |
| 19. | Wangdue Phodrang | Wangdi Phodrang | དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ | 'Wangdi Phodrºa | |
| 20. | Zhemgang | Shemgang | གཞལ་སྒང་ | Zhºämgang |
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