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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  • Type: Village with 230 residents
  • Description: town in Nepal
  • Also known as: “नेपाल”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tenzing-Hillary Airport.

Aerodrome
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, 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
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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 Urdu—“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”
  • Urdu: “لوکلا”

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