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.
- Aerodrome
- …lies at an elevation of 2,419 metres (7,936 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code TPJ
- …has the ICAO airport code VNTJ
- Description: airport in Nepal
- Also known as“Suketar Airport”“Taplejung”“TPJ”“VNTJ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taplejung.
Taplejung Airport
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Latitude
27.3513° or 27° 21′ 5″ north
Longitude
87.69707° or 87° 41′ 50″ east
Open location code
7MV99M2W+GR
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OpenStreetMap feature
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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: “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”
Localities in the Area
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