Lukla

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

Highlights include Tenzing-Hillary Airport.

Aerodrome
, also known as Lukla Airport, is a domestic airport and altiport in the town of Lukla, in Khumbu Pasanglhamu, Solukhumbu District, of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chaurikharka.

Village
is a village development committee in Solukhumbu District in the Sagarmatha Zone of northeastern . At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2422 people living in 502 individual households.

Lukla

Latitude
27.689° or 27° 41′ 20″ north
Longitude
86.7307° or 86° 43′ 50″ east
Population
230
Elevation
2,848 metres (9,344 feet)
IATA airport code
LUA
United Nations Location Code
NP LUA
Open location code
7MV8MPQJ+H7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 303021945
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
1283113
Wiki­data ID
Q389190
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Tamil—“Lukla” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: Lukla
  • Bengali: লুকলা
  • Bulgarian: Лукла
  • Catalan: Lukla
  • Cebuano: Lukla
  • Chinese: 卢克拉
  • Chinese: 盧克拉
  • Czech: Lukla
  • Danish: Lukla
  • Dutch: Lukla
  • Esperanto: Lukla
  • Finnish: Lukla
  • French: Lukla
  • German: Lukla
  • Hebrew: לוקלה
  • Hindi: लुकला
  • Hungarian: Lukla
  • Indonesian: Lukla
  • Interlingua: Lukla
  • Irish: Lukla
  • Italian: Lukla
  • Japanese: ルクラ
  • Japanese: ルクラ村
  • Korean: 루클라
  • Lithuanian: Lukla
  • Lombard: Lukla
  • Luxembourgish: Lukla
  • Maithili: लुक्ला
  • Minangkabau: Lukla
  • Nepali: लुक्ला
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Lukla
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Lukla
  • Norwegian: Lukla
  • Portuguese: Lukla
  • Russian: Лукла
  • Slovak: Lukla
  • Spanish: Lukla
  • Swedish: Lukla
  • Tamil: லுக்லா

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