Koshi Province
Solukhumbu
Khumbu Pasanglamhu

Tenzing-Hillary Airport

Tenzing-Hillary Airport, also known as Lukla Airport, is a domestic airport and altiport in the town of , in Khumbu Pasanglhamu, Solukhumbu District, of .
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Lukla, Nepal
  • Also known as: “LUA”, “Lukla Airport”, and “VNLK”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lukla and Chaurikharka.

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is a village in and home to the region's main airport. Most travelers visiting the region will enter and exit from here.

Village
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is a village development committee in Solukhumbu District in the Sagarmatha Zone of northeastern . At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2422 people living in 502 individual households.

Tenzing-Hillary Airport

Latitude
27.6867° or 27° 41′ 12″ north
Longitude
86.72951° or 86° 43′ 46″ east
Elevation
2,826 metres (9,272 feet)
IATA airport code
LUA
ICAO airport code
VNLK
Open location code
7MV8MPPH+MR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 377662838
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
7668622
Wiki­data ID
Q1043277
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Tenzing-Hillary Airport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مطار تنزينغ هيلاري”
  • Armenian: “Թենզինգ Հիլարիի անվան օդանավակայան”
  • Asturian: “Aeropuertu Tenzing-Hillary”
  • Awadhi: “तेन्जिङहिलारी हवाईगिरान”
  • Bengali: “তেনজিং-হিলারি বিমানবন্দর”
  • Bengali: “তেনজিং-হিলারী বিমানবন্দর”
  • Catalan: “Aeroport Tenzing-Hillary”
  • Cebuano: “Tenzing-Hillary Airport”
  • Chinese: “丹增-希拉里機場”
  • Chinese: “丹增希拉里機場”
  • Chinese: “陸克拉機場”
  • Czech: “Letiště Tenzinga a Hillaryho”
  • Danish: “Lukla Airport”
  • Danish: “Tenzing-Hillary Airport”
  • Danish: “VNLK”
  • Dutch: “Luchthaven Lukla”
  • Dutch: “Lukla Airport”
  • Dutch: “Tenzing-Hillary Airport”
  • Finnish: “Luklan lentoasema”
  • Finnish: “Tenzing-Hillaryn lentoasema”
  • French: “Aéroport de Lukla”
  • French: “aéroport Tenzing-Hillary”
  • French: “Aéroport Tenzing-Hillary”
  • French: “Tenzing Hillary (Lukla) Airport”
  • French: “VNLK”
  • German: “Flughafen Lukla”
  • German: “Lukla Airport”
  • German: “Tenzing Hillary Airport”
  • German: “Tenzing-Hillary Airport”
  • German: “VNLK”
  • Hausa: “Filin jirgin saman Tenzing-Hillary”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה טנזינג-הילרי”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה טנזינג–הילרי”
  • Hungarian: “Tendzing–Hillary repülőtér”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Lukla”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Tenzing-Hillary”
  • Indonesian: “LUA”
  • Indonesian: “VNLK”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Lukla”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto Tenzing-Hillary”
  • Japanese: “テンジン・ヒラリー空港”
  • Japanese: “ルクラ空港”
  • Korean: “루클라 공항”
  • Korean: “탕진 히리 공항”
  • Korean: “텐징-힐러리 공항”
  • Luxembourgish: “Fluchhafe Lukla”
  • Luxembourgish: “LUA”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tenzing-Hillary Airport”
  • Luxembourgish: “VNLK”
  • Maithili: “तेन्जिङ–हिलारी विमानस्थल”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Tenzing-Hillary”
  • Minangkabau: “Palabuahan udaro Tenzing–Hillary”
  • Nepali: “तेन्जिङ हिलारी विमानस्थल”
  • Nepali: “तेन्जिङ-हिलारी विमानस्थल”
  • Nepali: “तेन्जिङ्ग-हिलारी विमानस्थल”
  • Nepali: “लुक्ला विमानस्थल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “LUA”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tenzing-Hillary Airport”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tenzing-Hillary lufthavn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tenzing–Hillary flyplass”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “VNLK”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tenzing-Hillary lufthamn”
  • Norwegian: “Tenzing–Hillary flyplass”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه تنزینگ-هیلاری”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه تنزینگ–هیلاری”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Lukla”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Lukla”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Tenzing–Hillary”
  • Russian: “Аэропорт имени Тенцинга и Хиллари”
  • Russian: “Аэропорт имени Тэнцинга и Хиллари”
  • Russian: “Лукла”
  • Slovak: “Letisko Lukla”
  • Slovak: “Letisko Tenzinga a Hillaryho”
  • Slovenian: “Letališče Tenzing-Hillary”
  • Slovenian: “Tenzing-Hillary Airport Lukla”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Lukla”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Tenzing-Hillary”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи тнзинг-ҳилори”
  • Thai: “ท่าอากาศยานเทนซิง-ฮิลลารี”
  • Turkish: “Lukla Havaalanı”
  • Turkish: “Tenzing-Hillary Havalimanı”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay Tenzing-Hillary”
  • Welsh: “Maes Awyr Tenzing-Hillary”

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