Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport

Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport is a military airfield of the Indian Air Force as well as domestic airport serving , the capital of , . Situated at 3,256 m above mean sea level, it is the highest commercial airport in India and one of the highest in the world.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport
  • Also known as: “IXL”, “LEH”, “Leh air base”, “Leh Airport”, “Leh Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport”, and “VILH”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leh and Choglamsar.

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is one of the two capitals of , a union territory of . is in the Indus River Valley, at a crossroads of the old trading routes from , and .

Suburb
, also spelt Chuglamsar, is a census town in the Leh district of , India. It is located on the bank of the .

Village
is a village in the Leh district of , . It is located in the tehsil.

Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport

Latitude
34.13527° or 34° 8′ 7″ north
Longitude
77.54623° or 77° 32′ 46″ east
Elevation
3,256 metres (10,682 feet)
Operator
Airports Authority of India
Named after
19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche
IATA airport code
IXL
ICAO airport code
VILH
Open location code
8J6V4GPW+4F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 104798732
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­airfield
Geo­Names ID
7668606
Wiki­data ID
Q1431870
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Lughawe”
  • Bengali: “কুশোক বকুল কম্পোচি বিমানবন্দর”
  • Bulgarian: “Летище „Кушок Бакула Римпоче“”
  • Cebuano: “Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport”
  • Cebuano: “Kushok Bakula Rimpochhe Airport”
  • Chinese: “列城巴库拉仁波切机场”
  • Chinese: “列城巴庫拉仁波切機場”
  • Chinese: “巴库拉仁波切机场”
  • Chinese: “庫舒克·巴庫拉·仁波切機場”
  • French: “aéroport Kushok Bakula Rimpochhe de Leh”
  • French: “aéroport Kushok-Bakula-Rimpoché”
  • French: “Aéroport Kushok-Bakula-Rimpoché”
  • French: “IXL”
  • French: “LEH”
  • French: “VILH”
  • French: “ङ E9”
  • French: “चF4”
  • French: “चF11”
  • French: “रेह LEH”
  • French: “लेह LEH”
  • German: “Flughafen Leh”
  • German: “Leh Airport”
  • Gujarati: “કુશોક બાકુલા રિન્પોચે વિમાનમથક”
  • Hindi: “कुशोक बकुला रिंपोचे विमानपत्तन”
  • Hindi: “लेह कुशोक बकुला रिम्पोची विमानक्षेत्र”
  • Hindi: “लेह विमानक्षेत्र”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar udara kushok bakula rimpochee”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Kushok Bakula Rimpochee”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Leh”
  • Indonesian: “IXL”
  • Indonesian: “VILH”
  • Italian: “aeroporto Kushok-Bakula-Rimpoché”
  • Japanese: “カショック・バクラ・リムポチェー空港”
  • Japanese: “クショ・バクラ・リンポチェ空港”
  • Japanese: “レー・クショック・バクラ・リンポチェ空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Leh”
  • Marathi: “कुशोक बकुला रिम्पोची विमानतळ”
  • Marathi: “कुशोक बकुला रिम्पोचे विमानतळ”
  • Marathi: “लेह कुशोक बकुला रिम्पोचे विमानतळ”
  • Marathi: “लेह वायुसेना तळ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਸ਼ੋਕ ਬਕੁਲਾ ਰਿੰਪੋਚੀ ਹਵਾਈ ਅੱਡਾ”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه کوشک باکولا ریمپچ”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Kushok Bakula Rimpochee”
  • Russian: “Аэропорт Лех Кушок Бакула Римпочи”
  • Russian: “Лех Кушок Бакула Римпочи”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱩᱥᱳᱠ ᱵᱟᱠᱩᱞᱟ ᱨᱤᱢᱯᱳᱪᱤ ᱩᱰᱟᱹᱱ ᱰᱟᱹᱦᱤ”
  • Swedish: “Kushok Bakula Rimpochhe Airport”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи кушк бокуло римпч”
  • Tamil: “குசோக் பகூலா ரிம்போச்செ வானூர்தி நிலையம்”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay Leh Kushok Bakula Rimpochee”

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