Gelephu
Gelephu is a large town in Sarpang District in Central Bhutan, on the Indian border and close to the Royal Manas National Park.
- Type: Town with 9,860 residents
- Description: place in Sarpang District, Bhutan
- Also known as: “Gaylegphug”, “Gaylephug”, “Gelaphu”, “Gelegphu”, “Gelyephug”, “Hatisār”, “Гейлегпхуг”, “Гелефу”, “გეილეგფუგი”, and “ジェレプー”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Gelephu Airport.
Gelephu
- Categories: human settlement, border city, and locality
- Location: Sarpang District, Central Bhutan, Bhutan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
26.8704° or 26° 52′ 13″ north
Longitude
90.4856° or 90° 29′ 8″ east
Population
9,860
Elevation
221 metres (725 feet)
IATA airport code
GLU
Open location code
7MRGVFCP+46
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Gelephu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيليفو”
- Asturian: “Gelephu”
- Belarusian: “Гелепху”
- Bengali: “গেলেফু”
- Bengali: “জিলেপো”
- Cebuano: “Geylegphug”
- Chechen: “Гелепху”
- Chinese: “盖莱普”
- Danish: “Gelephu”
- Dutch: “Geylegphug”
- Dzongkha: “དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུ་”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيليفو”
- Estonian: “Gelephu”
- Finnish: “Gelephu”
- French: “Gelephu”
- German: “Gelephu”
- Greek: “Γκελέπου”
- Gujarati: “ગેલેફુ”
- Hebrew: “גלפו”
- Hindi: “जिलेफू”
- Indonesian: “Gelephu”
- Irish: “Gelephu”
- Italian: “Gelephu”
- Japanese: “ゲレフー”
- Kannada: “ಗೆಲೆಫು”
- Korean: “겔레푸”
- Latvian: “Gelefu”
- Lithuanian: “Gelefas”
- Macedonian: “Гелепу”
- Malay: “Gelephu”
- Marathi: “गेलेफू”
- Marathi: “जिलेफू”
- Mingrelian: “გელეფუ”
- Nepali: “गेलेफु”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gelephu”
- Persian: “جلفو”
- Polish: “Gelekpʽu”
- Polish: “Gelephu”
- Portuguese: “Geylegphug”
- Romanian: “Geylegphug”
- Russian: “Гелепху”
- Santali: “ᱜᱮᱞᱮᱯᱷᱩ”
- Sinhala: “ගෙලේපු”
- Slovak: “Gelephu”
- Spanish: “Gelephu”
- Swedish: “Geylegphug”
- Tamil: “ஜெலேப்ஹு”
- Tatar: “Гелепху”
- Telugu: “జెలేఫూ”
- Thai: “เกเรพู”
- Turkish: “Gelephu”
- Ukrainian: “Ґелепгу”
- Ukrainian: “Гелепху”
- Urdu: “جیلیپحو”
- Urdu: “گیلیفو”
- Vietnamese: “Gelephu”
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