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Suvarnabhumi Airport (IATA: BKK, ICAO: VTBS), also known as (New) Bangkok International Airport, is the
international airport serving Bangkok, Thailand. After delays and three decades of planning, the airport opened for
limited domestic flight service on 15 September 2006, and opened for all domestic and international commercial flights
on 28 September.
The airport is located in Racha Thewa in Bang Phli district, Samut Prakan Province, about 25 km east of downtown Bangkok.
The name Suvarnabhumi was chosen by King Bhumibol Adulyadej and refers to the golden kingdom hypothesized to have been
located somewhere in Southeast Asia. Designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects, this airport has the world's tallest
control tower (132.2 m), and the world's third largest single-building airport terminal (563,000 m²). Suvarnabhumi is
one of the busiest airports in Asia and Bangkok's primary airport for all international airline flights. The airport
inherited the airport code BKK from Don Mueang after the older airport ceased commercial flights. A modern motorway
connects the airport, Bangkok, and the heavily industrial Eastern Seaboard of Thailand, where most of the manufacturing
for export takes place.
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