Hungrel Gewog
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Hungrel Gewog is a gewog
Gewog
A gewog, or geog refers to a group of villages in Bhutan. Gewogs form a geographic administrative unit below dzongkhag districts , and above thromde municipalities. Bhutan comprises 205 gewogs, which average 230 km² in area...

 (village block) of Paro District
Paro District
Paro District is the name of a district , valley, river and town in Bhutan. It is one of the most historic valleys in Bhutan. Both trade goods and invading Tibetans came over the pass at the head of the valley, giving Paro the closest cultural connection with Tibet of any Bhutanese district...

, Bhutan
Bhutan
Bhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China...

. In 2002, the gewog had an area of 3.6 square kilometres and contained 17 villages and 247 households.

The Gewog is divided into 5 chewogs
Chewogs of Bhutan
Chiwogs of Bhutan , also spelled chewog, refer to the 1,044 basic electoral precincts of Bhutan. Chiwogs are also former third-level administrative divisions of Bhutan, below Gewogs. Until 2009, they were the equivalent of municipalities or parishes, containing clusters of villages and hamlets...

: Gaupay Chewog, Lunhchuna Chewog, Hungrel Chewog, Jangsabu Chewog and Changsema Chewog. 78% of the households have piped drinking water facility and over 100 households have electricity connections. The economy is based around agriculture, mainly dry and wetland cultivation of paddy, wheat, potatoes, apples and dairy products.
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