Bhutan has 20 administrative districts, which are entitled as Dzongkhag. Some highly populated Dzongkhag contains sub-district, which is named Dungkhag. There are total 13 Dungkhag in Bhutan. Each Dzongkhag are separated into a few “Gewog". You can imagine the size of each “Gewog" is just the collection of a few small villages.

“Dzong” is the main building for each Dzongkhag. “Dzong” looks like a traditional Bhutan-style castle, which may easily misunderstood as the palace of the royal family. However, they are actually the government office, where those important policies are made here. Moreover, there are indoor-temple for the monk to worship. “Dzong” can be regarded as the most representative building in Bhutan.

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In the old time, Dzong’s main function is to defense the enemy. Therefore, they are always built next to the mountains or rivers. No nails were consumed when the Bhutanese built the Dzongs. You can never imagine such a great building was built without one single nail.

 

不丹全國分成20個行政區，稱為宗卡（Dzongkhag，或簡稱宗），13個次級行政區，稱為東（Dungkhag，只有人口較多的宗卡才會有東），宗之下是格窩（Gewog，大約就是幾條小村的規模）。

而每個行政區都有一個建築物作地區行政工作的中心，稱為「Dzong」（中文：宗），相當於政府的不同地區辦事處，是國家權力的中心點。除此以外，佛教作為不丹的國教，宗內也有部分劃作寺廟讓僧人修行禮佛，所以要說不丹最具代表性的建築，不能不說宗。

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宗在外面看來就是一個大堡壘，外牆四角的高塔鼎立，裡面幾棟大樓便是寺廟丶政府行政的地方，也是國王、國師等國家重要人物的的工作地方。

「宗」在古時主要作為防禦要塞，大多建於山谷口、山峰或河流邊，佔盡地理優勢；據說建「宗」時，沒有製圖，沒有用釘，純粹利用精細的木工技術建出如此宏偉的建築物，所以每一個「宗」確是集地利人和的結晶。