Bhutan
Western Bhutan
Paro District

Paro

Paro is a town and seat of , in the Paro Valley of . It is an historic town with many sacred sites and historical buildings scattered throughout the area.
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  • Type: City with 11,400 residents
  • Description: city in Bhutan
  • Also known as: “Paro Dzong”, “Paro, Bhutan”, and “Rimpung Dzong”

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Museum of Bhutan and Jangtsa Dumtseg Lhakhang.

Museum
Photo: Emily Davidow, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a cultural in the town of in western .

Buddhist temple
Photo: Cfynn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Dungtse Lhakhang is a Buddhist temple in western . The temple is notable as it is in the form of a chorten, very rare in Bhutan.

Paro

Latitude
27.4308° or 27° 25′ 51″ north
Longitude
89.413° or 89° 24′ 47″ east
Population
11,400
Elevation
2,266 metres (7,434 feet)
IATA airport code
PBH
United Nations Location Code
BT PBH
Open location code
7MVFCCJ7+85
Open­Street­Map ID
node 247439158
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1252490
Wiki­data ID
Q862041
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Paro” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بارو”
  • Armenian: “Պարո (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Պարո”
  • Assamese: “পাৰো”
  • Asturian: “Paro”
  • Belarusian: “Паро”
  • Bengali: “পারো, ভুটান”
  • Bengali: “পারো”
  • Bulgarian: “Паро”
  • Cebuano: “Paro (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Paro”
  • Chinese: “帕罗”
  • Chinese: “帕羅”
  • Czech: “Paro”
  • Danish: “Paro”
  • Dutch: “Paro”
  • Dzongkha: “པ་རོ་”
  • Dzongkha: “སྤ་རོ་”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بارو”
  • Esperanto: “Paro”
  • Estonian: “Paro”
  • French: “Paro”
  • Galician: “Paro”
  • Georgian: “პარო”
  • Georgian: “პაროს მთიულეთი”
  • German: “Paro”
  • Greek: “Πάρο”
  • Hebrew: “פארו”
  • Hindi: “परो”
  • Hindi: “पारो-भूटान”
  • Hungarian: “Paro”
  • Indonesian: “Paro, Bhutan”
  • Indonesian: “Paro”
  • Italian: “Paro”
  • Japanese: “パロ”
  • Korean: “파로”
  • Lithuanian: “Paras”
  • Malayalam: “പാറൊ”
  • Mingrelian: “პარო”
  • Nepali: “पारो, भुटान”
  • Nepali: “पारो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paro”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paro”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਰੋ, ਭੂਟਾਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਰੋ”
  • Persian: “پارو، بوتان”
  • Persian: “پارو”
  • Polish: “Paro”
  • Portuguese: “Paro”
  • Russian: “Паро”
  • Serbian: “Паро”
  • Slovenian: “Paro, Butan”
  • Slovenian: “Paro”
  • Spanish: “Paro”
  • Swedish: “Paro (distriktshuvudort)”
  • Swedish: “Paro”
  • Tamil: “பாரோ, பூடான்”
  • Tamil: “பாரோ”
  • Thai: “ปาโร”
  • Turkish: “Paro, Bhutan”
  • Turkish: “Paro”
  • Ukrainian: “Паро”
  • Urdu: “پارو، بھوٹان”
  • Urdu: “پارو”
  • Welsh: “Paro, Bhutan”
  • Welsh: “Paro”

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