Taplejung Airport
Taplejung Airport, also known as Suketar Airport, is a domestic airport located in Phungling serving Taplejung District, a district in Koshi Province in Nepal. It is the main tourist gateway on the Kangchenjunga mountainous area and Pathibhara Devi Temple.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Nepal
- Also known as: “Suketar Airport”, “Taplejung”, “TPJ”, and “VNTJ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taplejung.
Taplejung
Photo: Mithunkunwar9, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Phungling Municipality is a municipality located in Taplejung District in the Koshi Province of Nepal. The municipality was formed merging the then two Village Development Committees of Phungling and Dokhu in May 2014.
Taplejung Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Phungling, Taplejung, Koshi Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.3513° or 27° 21′ 5″ northLongitude
87.69707° or 87° 41′ 50″ eastElevation
2,425 metres (7,956 feet)IATA airport code
TPJICAO airport code
VNTJOpen location code
7MV99M2W+GROpenStreetMap ID
way 673644023OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“Taplejung Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Taplejung Airport”
- Cebuano: “Taplejung”
- Chinese: “地旁莊機場”
- Chinese: “达布莱宗机场”
- Chinese: “达布莱宗機場”
- French: “aérodrome de Taplejung”
- French: “Aérodrome de Taplejung”
- French: “Taplejung Airport”
- French: “VNTJ”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Taplejung”
- Indonesian: “TPJ”
- Indonesian: “VNTJ”
- Japanese: “タプレジュン空港”
- Maithili: “ताप्लेजुङ विमानस्थल”
- Nepali: “ताप्लेजुङ विमानस्थल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taplejung Airport”
- Norwegian: “Taplejung lufthavn”
- Persian: “فرودگاه تاپلجونگ”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Taplejung”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Taplejung”
- Swedish: “Taplejung flygplats”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи топлҷунг”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Taplejung Airport”. Photo: Kogo, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.