Bhutan
Central Bhutan
Sarpang District

Gelephu

Gelephu is a large town in Sarpang District in , on the Indian border and close to the .
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  • Type: Town with 9,860 residents
  • Description: place in Sarpang District, Bhutan
  • Also known as: “Gaylegphug”, “Gaylephug”, “Gelegphu”, “Gelyephug”, and “Hatisār”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gelephu Airport.

Aerodrome
is located in Samtenling Gewog, about three kilometres from Gelephu in , Bhutan. The airport has been constructed on an area spanning over 500 acres and came into regular use in late 2017.

Gelephu

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
node 7965980336
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1252560
Wiki­data ID
Q1499697
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Gelephu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جيليفو”
  • Belarusian: “Гелепху”
  • Bengali: “গেলেফু”
  • Bengali: “জিলেপো”
  • Cebuano: “Geylegphug”
  • Chechen: “Гелепху”
  • Danish: “Gelephu”
  • Dutch: “Geylegphug”
  • Dzongkha: “དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུ་”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جيليفو”
  • Estonian: “Gelephu”
  • Finnish: “Gelephu”
  • French: “Gelephu”
  • German: “Gelaphu”
  • German: “Gelephu”
  • German: “Geylegphug”
  • Greek: “Γκελέπου”
  • Gujarati: “ગેલેફુ”
  • Hindi: “जिलेफू”
  • Indonesian: “Gelephu”
  • Irish: “Gelephu”
  • Italian: “Gelephu”
  • Japanese: “ゲレフー”
  • Japanese: “ジェレプー”
  • Kannada: “ಗೆಲೆಫು”
  • Korean: “겔레푸”
  • Latvian: “Gelefu”
  • Lithuanian: “Gelefas”
  • Macedonian: “Гелепу”
  • Malay: “Gelephu”
  • Marathi: “गेलेफू”
  • Marathi: “जिलेफू”
  • Mingrelian: “გეილეგფუგი”
  • Mingrelian: “გელეფუ”
  • Nepali: “गेलेफु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gelephu”
  • Persian: “جلفو”
  • Polish: “Gelekpʽu”
  • Polish: “Gelephu”
  • Portuguese: “Geylegphug”
  • Romanian: “Geylegphug”
  • Russian: “Гейлегпхуг”
  • Russian: “Гелепху”
  • Russian: “Гелефу”
  • 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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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 Wikivoyage page “Gelephu”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.