Jomsom
Jomsom is a village in the Annapurna mountains of Nepal. It is the capital of the Mustang district of the Dhawalagiri zone of Nepal. The town is a popular starting/ending point for treks along the Kali Gandaki River valley as well as up to Muktinath on the Jomsom-Muktinath Trek.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Utsab Raj Giri, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,370 residents
- Description: town in Mustang District, Nepal
- Also known as: “Dzongsam” and “New Fort”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jomsom Airport.
Jomsom Airport
Aerodrome
Jomsom Airport is a domestic airport located in Jomsom serving Mustang District, a district in Gandaki Province in Nepal. It serves as the gateway to Mustang District that includes Jomsom, Kagbeni, Tangbe, and Lo Manthang, and Muktinath temple, which is a popular pilgrimage for Nepalis and Indian pilgrims.
Jomsom
- Categories: town, village development committee of Nepal, and locality
- Location: Gharapjhong, Mustang, Gandaki Pradesh, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.7838° or 28° 47′ 2″ northLongitude
83.7305° or 83° 43′ 50″ eastPopulation
1,370Elevation
2,800 metres (9,186 feet)IATA airport code
JMOUnited Nations Location Code
NP JMOOpen location code
7MW5QPMJ+G5OpenStreetMap ID
node 346662028OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7910491Wikidata ID
Q1702717
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Jomsom” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ջոմսոմ”
- Asturian: “Jomsom”
- Bengali: “জোমসাম”
- Catalan: “Jomsom”
- Cebuano: “Jomsom (conseho sa kaayuhan sa balangay)”
- Cebuano: “Jomsom”
- Dotyali: “जोमसोम”
- Dutch: “Jomsom”
- French: “Jomosom”
- French: “Jomoson”
- French: “Jomsom”
- German: “Jomosom”
- German: “Jomsom”
- Hebrew: “הלילה ה13”
- Hindi: “जोमसोम”
- Italian: “Jomsom”
- Japanese: “ジョムソム”
- Japanese: “ジョムソン”
- Japanese: “ジョンソム”
- Lithuanian: “Džomsomas”
- Maithili: “जोमसोम”
- Malay: “Jomsom”
- Nepali: “जोमसोम”
- Newari: “जोमसोम”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jomsom”
- Norwegian: “Jomsom”
- Polish: “Jomsom”
- Portuguese: “Jomsom”
- Russian: “Джомсом”
- Swedish: “Jomsom”
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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 “Jomsom”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.