Khumjung
Khumjung is a village in Khumbu Pasanglhamu rural municipality of Solukhumbu District in Province No. 1 of north-eastern Nepal. It is located in the Khumbu sub-region inside Sagarmatha National Park, a world heritage site.Photo: Meetkakadiya8, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: DARIO SEVERI, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 1,910 residents
- Description: village in Solukhumbu District, Nepal
- Also known as: “Khumjun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Syangboche Airport and Everest View Hotel.
Syangboche Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0.
Syangboche Airport is a domestic airport located in Namche Bazaar serving Solukhumbu District, a district in Koshi Province in Nepal. Syangboche Airport’s first and foremost challenge is its elevation at 3,780 m; it is exposed to some of the most extreme and capricious weather conditions in the world, with heavy winds, fog and snowfall.
Mount Khumbila
Peak
Photo: Uwe Gille, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Khumbila or Khumbu Yül-Lha, roughly translated as "God of Khumbu village" is one of the high Himalayan peaks in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal within the Sagarmatha National Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khunde and Namche Bazaar.
Khunde
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Khunde is a village in the Khumbu region of Nepal within the Sagarmatha National Park. It is directly adjacent to Khumjung village in the valley at the foot of Khumbu Yül-Lha, the sacred mountain of the Sherpas.
Namche Bazaar
Photo: kyletaylor, CC BY 2.0.
Namche Bazaar is the unofficial capital of the Khumbu region of Nepal, and is a major stop-off point for trekkers and climbers heading for Mount Everest base camp.
Khumjung
- Categories: village development committee of Nepal and locality
- Location: Khumbu Pasanglamhu, Solukhumbu, Koshi Province, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.8236° or 27° 49′ 25″ northLongitude
86.7173° or 86° 43′ 2″ eastPopulation
1,910Elevation
3,443 metres (11,296 feet)Open location code
7MV8RPF8+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 425189495OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1283196Wikidata ID
Q583316
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Khumjung” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “খুমজুং”
- Bhojpuri: “खुम्जुङ”
- Cebuano: “Khumjung”
- Chinese: “崑瓊”
- Chinese: “昆琼”
- Chinese: “昆瓊”
- Czech: “Khumdžung”
- Czech: “Khumjung”
- Dutch: “Khumjung”
- French: “Khumjung”
- German: “Khumjung”
- Hindi: “खुम्जुङ”
- Italian: “Khumjung”
- Korean: “쿰중”
- Maithili: “खुम्जुङ”
- Malay: “Khumjung”
- Nepali: “Khumjuṅ”
- Nepali: “खुम्जुङ”
- Newari: “खुमजुड”
- Polish: “Khumjung”
- Portuguese: “Khumjung”
- Russian: “Кумджунг”
- Spanish: “Khumjung”
- Ukrainian: “Кумджунг”
- Ukrainian: “Кумджунґ”
- Urdu: “کھم جنگ”
- “खुम्जुङ”
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