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The plane landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport at 4:55 p.m. The name 'Suvarnabhumi', is pronounced as "su-wan-na-poom". The name is derived from Sanskrit, which means golden land. The name was chosen by King Bhumibol Adulyadie.

The airport is located in Racha Thewa in the Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan province, 30 kilometers east of Bangkok.

The airport has two parallel runways. Both of them are 60 metre wide. One of the runways is 4000 meters long and the other is 3,700 meters. It can handle 76 flight operations per hour. It can handle 45 million passengers and 3 million tonnes of cargo per year.

The airport passenger terminal is 563,000 square meter that is, 6,060,000 square feet. It is the fourth biggest passenger terminal building in the world. The airport is going through phase 2. It will raise its capacity to handle 65 million passengers per year. The airport has two 5-storey car park buildings. The buildings can house 5000 cars.

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The plane landed at Suvarnabhumi (a) ______ at 4:55 p.m. The name means golden land in Sanskrit and chosen by king Bhumibal. The airport is (b) ______ in Racha Thewa. in a provincial district, 30 kilometres cast of Bangkok. The airport has two parallel (c) _______ with 60 metres width but different length. It's able to handle 76 flight operations per (d) _______ and 45 million passengers and 3 million tones of cargo per year. The airport has the (c) ______ biggest passenger terminal building in the world.

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The plane landed at Suvarnabhumi (a) Airport at 4:55 p.m. The name means golden land in Sanskrit and chosen by king Bhumibal. The airport is (b) situated in Racha Thewa. in a provincial district, 30 kilometres cast of Bangkok. The airport has two parallel (c) runways with 60 metres width but different length. It's able to handle 76 flight operations per (d) hour and 45 million passengers and 3 million tones of cargo per year. The airport has the (c) fourth biggest passenger terminal building in the world.

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