Paro District
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dzongkhag (district) in Bhutan
Key facts
- Country
- Bhutan
- Headquarters
- Paro
- Total
- 1,293 km (499 sq mi)
- Density
- 35.82/km (92.77/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+6 ( BTT )
- Iso 3166 code
- BT-11
- Hdi 2019
- 0.722 , high · 2nd
- Website
- www .paro .gov .bt
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Bhutan
- Official name
- སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག་བདག་སྐྱོང་།
- Country
- Bhutan
- Located in
- Bhutan
- Capital
- Paro
- Population
- 36433
- Area
- 1693
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Official website
- www.paro.gov.bt
- Image
- Drukgyal Dzong 2021-04-28.jpg
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- Commons category
- Paro District
- topic's main category
- Category:Paro District
- native label
- སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག
- language used
- Dzongkha
- male population
- 23941
- female population
- 22375
- urban population
- 11913
- rural population
- 34403
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Encyclopedic overview
Paro District (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག།; Wylie: Spa-ro rdzong-khag) is a district (dzongkhag), valley, river and town (population 20,000) in Bhutan. It is one of the most historic valleys in Bhutan. Both trade goods and invading Tibetans came over the pass at the head of the valley, giving Paro the closest cultural connection with Tibet of any Bhutanese district. The dominant language in Paro is Dzongkha, the national language.
The only international airport in Bhutan, Paro International Airport, is located in Paro District.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paro District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.