Jakar
Located in central Bhutan, Jakar is renowned as a center of Vajrayana Buddhism, particularly the Nyingma tradition, and is home to numerous monasteries and sacred sites.
- Type: Town with 6,240 residents
- Description: town in Bhutan
- Also known as: “Bjakar”, “Bumthang”, “Bya-kar”, “Jokhar Dzong”, and “བྱ་ཀར་”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bathpalathang Airport and Jakar Dzong.
Bathpalathang Airport
Aerodrome
Bathpalathang Airport is a domestic Bhutanese airport in Jakar, Bumthang District. One of only four airports in the country, it opened on 17 December 2011 with flights to Paro.
Jakar Dzong
Buddhist temple
Jakar Dzong or Jakar Yugyal Dzong is the dzong or fortress of the Bumthang District in central Bhutan. It is located on a ridge above Jakar town in the Chamkhar valley of Bumthang.
Jakar
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Bumthang District, Central Bhutan, Bhutan, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.5496° or 27° 32′ 59″ north
Longitude
90.7527° or 90° 45′ 10″ east
Population
6,240
Elevation
2,587 metres (8,488 feet)
IATA airport code
BUT
Open location code
7MVGGQX3+V3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Jakar” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ጃካር”
- Arabic: “جاكار”
- Asturian: “Jakar”
- Azerbaijani: “Cakar”
- Bengali: “জাকার”
- Cebuano: “Jakar”
- Chechen: “Джакар”
- Chinese: “Jiǎ kǎ’ěr”
- Chinese: “賈卡爾”
- Chinese: “贾卡尔”
- Dutch: “Jakar”
- Esperanto: “Jakaro”
- French: “Jakar”
- German: “Jakar”
- Hausa: “Jakar”
- Hindi: “जाकार”
- Hungarian: “Dzsakar”
- Indonesian: “Jakar”
- Irish: “Jakar”
- Italian: “Jakar”
- Japanese: “ジェイカー町”
- Japanese: “ジャカル”
- Javanese: “Jakar”
- Kazakh: “Джакар”
- Kirghiz: “Джакар”
- Lithuanian: “Džakaras”
- Malay: “Jakar”
- Nepali: “जाकर”
- Oromo: “Jakar”
- Panjabi: “ਜਾਕਾਰ”
- Persian: “جاکار”
- Persian: “جکار”
- Polish: “Dzakar”
- Portuguese: “Jakar”
- Pushto: “جاکار”
- Romanian: “Jakar, Bhutan”
- Romanian: “Jakar”
- Russian: “Бьякар”
- Russian: “Джакар”
- Santali: “ᱡᱟᱠᱟᱨ”
- Serbian: “Џакар”
- Somali: “Jakar”
- Spanish: “Byakar”
- Spanish: “Jakar”
- Swahili: “Jakar”
- Swedish: “Jakar”
- Tajik: “Джакар”
- Tatar: “Джакар”
- Turkish: “Jakar”
- Ukrainian: “Джакар”
- Urdu: “جاکر”
- Uzbek: “Jakar”
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