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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is the unofficial capital of the…

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is a village in Khumbu and home to the region's main airport.

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is a village in Khumbu Pasanglhamu rural…

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is a relatively large village in Khumbu, located between and Chukhung.

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is a small village in Solukhumbu District in the…

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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…

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is in Khumbu in Sagarmatha National Park at an altitude of about 4,371 m.

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also Monjo is a village in Khumbu.

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is a village in the Khumbu region of within the Sagarmatha National Park.

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or Panboche is a village in Village…

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is a small village in Khumbu with a fabulous…

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and its neighbouring Thameteng are small Sherpa…

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”
  • Hebrew: “קהומבו”
  • Hindi: “खुंबू”
  • Hindi: “खुम्बु”
  • Indonesian: “Khumbu”
  • Irish: “Khumbu”
  • Italian: “Khumbu”
  • Japanese: “クンブ”
  • 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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