26°50′N 90°15′E / 26.833°N 90.250°E
Sarpang District (Dzongkha: གསར་སྤང་རྫོང་ཁག།; Wylie: Gsar-spang rdzong-khag; also known as Geylegphug is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. Sarpang covers a total area of 1,946 km (751 sq mi) and stretches from Lhamoizhingkha in West Bhutan to Manas National Park in the east. Sarpang Dzongkhag is divided into one dungkhag, Gelephu, and 12 gewogs.
The Tamang people (རྟ་དམག་; Devanagari: तामाङ; tāmāṅ) are an ethnic group living in Nepal, Northeast India and southern Bhutan. In Nepal, they are concentrated in the central hilly and Himalayan regions and constituted over 1.6 million people in the 2021 census. In India, Tamang people live in the state of Sikkim, in the Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal and in Assam. In Bhutan, they live foremost in the southern foothills including Tsirang District, Dagana District, Samtse District, Chukha District, Sarpang District and Samdrup Jongkhar District. The Tamang language is the fifth most-spoken language in Nepal.