Chamong Tea Garden
Chamong Tea Garden is a village in the Jorebunglow Sukhiapokhri CD block in the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Etymology
There was a chirpy bird in this area, which the inhabitants, the Lepchas, used to call "Chamoo" and from that, the place became Chamong.History
Chamong Tea Garden was established by the British planters in 1871. It was one of the first gardens in Darjeeling to be acquired by the Lohia Group.Geography
Location
Chamong Tea Garden is located at.Chamong Tea Garden has a cultivated area of out of the total area of at an altitude ranging from above mean sea level.
Area overview
The map alongside shows a part of the southern portion of the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region in the Darjeeling district. In the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision 61.00% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 39.00% of the population lives in the urban areas. In the Mirik subdivision 80.11% of the total population lives in the rural areas and 19.89% lives in the urban areas. There are 78 tea gardens/ estates, in the district, producing and largely exporting Darjeeling tea. It engages a large proportion of the population directly/ indirectly. Some tea gardens were identified in the 2011 census as census towns or villages. Such places are marked in the map as CT or R. Specific tea estate pages are marked TE.Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.