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Paro International Airport (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་གནམ་ཐང༌།, romanized: paro gnam thang) (IATA: PBH, ICAO: VQPR) is the sole international airport of the four airports in Bhutan. It is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi; 3.2 nmi) from Paro in a deep valley on the bank of the river Paro Chhu .
This is a list of airports in Bhutan, sorted by location. Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia , located at the eastern end of the Himalaya Mountains and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by Tibet .
In the Dzongkha language, Bhutan is known as Drukyul which translates as "The Land of the Thunder Dragon". Thus, while kings of Bhutan are known as Druk Gyalpo ("Dragon King"), the Bhutanese people call themselves the Drukpa, meaning "people of Druk (Bhutan)". The current sovereign of Bhutan is Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the fifth Druk ...
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་, Wylie: jigs med rdo rje dbang phyug; 2 May 1928 [2] [3] – 21 July 1972) was the 3rd Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan.
Drukair Airbus A319 and BAe 146 at Paro Airport in 2005. Druk Gyalpo Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck on 11 November 2007 issued a Royal Kasho establishing Druk Holding and Investments Limited, a holding company which would manage existing and future investments of the Royal
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck [a] (born 21 February 1980) is the King of Bhutan.His reign began in 2006 after his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne. A public coronation ceremony was held on 6 November 2008, a year that marked 100 years of monarchy in Bhutan.
2 May – Birth Anniversary of Third Druk Gyalpo; 7 May – Shabdrung Kurchoe; 11 June – Lord Buddha's Parinirvana; 5 July – Sun Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche; 28 July – First Sermon of Lord Buddha; 23 September – Sun Blessed Rainy Day; 2 October – Sat Dashain Festival; 1 November – Coronation of His Majesty the King
A druk appears on the flag of Bhutan, holding jewels to represent wealth. In Dzongkha, Bhutan is called Druk Yul "Land of Druk", and Bhutanese leaders are called Druk Gyalpo, "Thunder Dragon Kings". During the Bhutanese mock election in 2007, all four mock parties were called the Druk [colour] Party. [1]