Bhutan
Central Bhutan
Bumthang District

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.
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  • Type: Town with 6,240 residents
  • Description: town in Bhutan
  • Also known as: “Bjakar”, “Bumthang”, “Bya-kar”, and “Jokhar Dzong”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bathpalathang Airport and Jakar Dzong.

Aerodrome
is a domestic airport in Jakar, . One of only four airports in the country, it opened on 17 December 2011 with flights to .

Buddhist temple
Photo: Jmhullot, CC BY 3.0.
or Jakar Yugyal Dzong is the dzong or fortress of the in central . It is located on a ridge above Jakar town in the Chamkhar valley of Bumthang.

Jakar

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
node 10172620272
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1337301
Wiki­data ID
Q2468415
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Satellite Map

Discover Jakar from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Urdu—“Jakar” goes by many names.
  • 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”
  • Hungarian: “Dzsakar”
  • Irish: “Jakar”
  • Italian: “Jakar”
  • Japanese: “ジェイカー町”
  • Japanese: “ジャカル”
  • Lithuanian: “Džakaras”
  • Nepali: “जाकर”
  • Persian: “جکار”
  • Polish: “Dzakar”
  • Portuguese: “Jakar”
  • Romanian: “Jakar, Bhutan”
  • Romanian: “Jakar”
  • Russian: “Бьякар”
  • Russian: “Джакар”
  • Serbian: “Џакар”
  • Spanish: “Byakar”
  • Spanish: “Jakar”
  • Swedish: “Jakar”
  • Tatar: “Джакар”
  • Ukrainian: “Джакар”
  • Urdu: “جاکر”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Jakar”. Photo: Jmhullot, CC BY 3.0.