Paro District

Paro District is a district, valley, river and town in . It is one of the most historic valleys in Bhutan. Both trade goods and invading came over the pass at the head of the valley, giving Paro the closest cultural connection with Tibet of any Bhutanese district.
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  • Type: State with 46,300 residents
  • Description: dzongkhag (district) in Bhutan
  • Also known as: “District Paro”, “Dzongkhag Paro”, “Paro”, “Paro Administration”, “Paro dzongkhag”, “Spa-ro rdzong-khag”, and “พาโร”

Paro District

Latitude
27.4646° or 27° 27′ 53″ north
Longitude
89.3183° or 89° 19′ 6″ east
Population
46,300
Elevation
3,232 metres (10,604 feet)
Open location code
7MVFF879+V8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4353319279
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1337286
Wiki­data ID
Q652784
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Paro District” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ፓሮ”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بارو”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Paro”
  • Azerbaijani: “Paro”
  • Bengali: “পারো জেলা”
  • Bengali: “পারো”
  • Bulgarian: “Паро”
  • Catalan: “Districte de Paro”
  • Cebuano: “Paro Dzongkhag”
  • Chinese: “帕罗宗”
  • Chinese: “帕羅宗”
  • Danish: “Paro District”
  • Dutch: “Paro”
  • Dzongkha: “སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག་”
  • Dzongkha: “སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Paro”
  • Estonian: “Paro ringkond”
  • Finnish: “Paro”
  • French: “district de Paro”
  • French: “Paro”
  • Galician: “distrito de Paro”
  • German: “Paro”
  • Greek: “Πάρο”
  • Gujarati: “પારો જિલ્લો”
  • Hausa: “Paro”
  • Hindi: “पारो जिला”
  • Hindi: “पारो-भूटान”
  • Hungarian: “Paro körzet”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Paro”
  • Italian: “distretto di Paro”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Paro”
  • Japanese: “パロ”
  • Japanese: “パロ県”
  • Javanese: “Paro”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾರೊ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Паро”
  • Kirghiz: “Паро”
  • Korean: “파로현”
  • Latvian: “Paro distrikts”
  • Lithuanian: “Paro apskritis”
  • Malay: “Paro District”
  • Malay: “Paro”
  • Malayalam: “പാറോ ജില്ല”
  • Marathi: “पारो जिल्हा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Paro Koān”
  • Minangkabau: “Distrik Paro”
  • Nepali: “पारो जिल्ला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Paro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paro”
  • Norwegian: “Paro”
  • Oromo: “Paro”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਰੋ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਰੋ”
  • Persian: “استان پارو”
  • Persian: “پارو”
  • Persian: “ناحیه پارو”
  • Polish: “Dystrykt Paro”
  • Polish: “Paro”
  • Portuguese: “Paro”
  • Pushto: “پارو ولسوالۍ”
  • Pushto: “پارو”
  • Romanian: “Paro”
  • Russian: “Паро”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱟᱨᱳ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Serbian: “Паро”
  • Sinhala: “පාරෝ දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovenian: “Okraj Paro”
  • Somali: “Paro”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Paro”
  • Swahili: “Paro”
  • Swedish: “Paro”
  • Tajik: “Паро”
  • Tamil: “பாரோ மாவட்டம்”
  • Tatar: “Паро”
  • Telugu: “పారో జిల్లా”
  • Thai: “เขตปาโร”
  • Thai: “เขตพาโร”
  • Tibetan: “སྤ་རོ་གི་ས་ཁོངས།”
  • Tumbuka: “Paro”
  • Turkish: “Paro”
  • Ukrainian: “Паро”
  • Urdu: “پارو ضلع”
  • Uzbek: “Paro”
  • Vietnamese: “Paro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Paro”
  • Western Panjabi: “پارو ضلع”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع پارو”

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