Khumbu

Khumbu is a sub-region in Solu Khumbu on the Nepalese side of Mount Everest. The Everest region includes the Sagarmatha National Park and the Sagarmatha National Park Buffer Zone. The former is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Namche Bazaar and Lukla.

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is the unofficial capital of the Khumbu region of , and is a major stop-off point for trekkers and climbers heading for base camp.

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is a village in Khumbu and home to the region's main airport. Most travelers visiting the region will enter and exit from here.

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is a village in Khumbu Pasanglhamu rural municipality of Solukhumbu District in Province No. 1 of north-eastern . It is located in the Khumbu sub-region inside Sagarmatha National Park, a world heritage site.

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Explore places such as Dingboche and Gokyo.

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is a relatively large village in Khumbu, located between and Chukhung. It is above the tree line, and so lacks the greenery of the villages below.

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is a small village in Solukhumbu District in the Himalayas of Nepal, at the foot of , located on the eastern shore of the third , Dudh Pokhari.

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is the main town of Solududhkunda Municipality and the district headquarters of Solu Khumbu.

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Monastery, also known as Dawa Choling Gompa, in the village in in the Khumbu region of eastern is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Sherpa community.

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is in Khumbu in Sagarmatha National Park at an altitude of about 4,371 m. is a station on the Mount Everest Trek between Namche Bazar and Mount Everest Base Camp, and is a popular stop for trekkers and climbers.

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also Monjo is a village in Khumbu. It is located between the villages of and .

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is a village in the Khumbu region of within the Sagarmatha National Park. It is directly adjacent to village in the valley at the foot of , the sacred mountain of the Sherpas.

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or Panboche is a village in Village Development Committee of Solukhumbu District in Province No. 1 of at an altitude of 13,074 feet.

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is a small village in Khumbu with a fabulous variety of additional spellings such as Chuukung and Chukhung. It is located at 4,730 metres above sea level.

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and its neighbouring Thameteng are small Sherpa villages in of the Solukhumbu District in . These were the last year-round villages on the salt trading route that existed between , , and Nepal.

Khumbu

Latitude of center
27.8919° or 27° 53′ 31″ north
Longitude of center
86.7235° or 86° 43′ 25″ east
Elevation
4,164 metres (13,661 feet)
Geo­Names ID
1283199
Wiki­data ID
Q1428329
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Khumbu” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Կխամբու”
  • Asturian: “Khumbu”
  • Basque: “Khumbu”
  • Bengali: “খুম্বু”
  • Catalan: “Khumbu”
  • Cebuano: “Khumbu”
  • Central Kurdish: “خومبوو”
  • Chinese: “坤布”
  • Czech: “Khumbu”
  • Danish: “Khumbu”
  • Dutch: “Khumbu”
  • French: “Khumbu”
  • German: “Khumbu Himal”
  • German: “Khumbu”
  • German: “Khumbugebiet”
  • Hebrew: “קהומבו”
  • Hindi: “खुंबू”
  • Hindi: “खुम्बु”
  • Indonesian: “Khumbu”
  • Irish: “Khumbu”
  • Italian: “Khumbu”
  • Italian: “Regione dell’Everest”
  • Japanese: “クンブ”
  • Japanese: “クンブ地方”
  • Kannada: “ಖುಂಬು”
  • Lithuanian: “Khumbu”
  • Maithili: “खुम्बु”
  • Nepali: “Khumbu”
  • Nepali: “खुम्बु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Khumbu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khumbu”
  • Norwegian: “Khumbu”
  • Panjabi: “ਖੁੰਬੂ”
  • Persian: “خومبو”
  • Portuguese: “Khumbu”
  • Romanian: “Khumbu”
  • Russian: “Кхумбу”
  • Spanish: “Khumbu”
  • Tamil: “கும்பு”
  • Tibetan: “ཁུམ་བུ།”
  • Ukrainian: “Кхумбу”
  • Venetian: “Khunbu”
  • Vietnamese: “Khumbu”

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