Taplejung
Phungling Municipality is a municipality located in Taplejung District in the Koshi Province of Nepal. The municipality was formed merging the then two Village Development Committees of Phungling and Dokhu in May 2014.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: village development committee
- Also known as: “Phungling”, “Phungling Municipality”, “Taplejun”, “Tāplejung”, and “ताप्लेजुङ”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Taplejung Airport.
Taplejung Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Kogo, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Taplejung Airport, also known as Suketar Airport, is a domestic airport located in Phungling serving Taplejung District, a district in Koshi Province in Nepal. It is the main tourist gateway on the Kangchenjunga mountainous area and Pathibhara Devi Temple.
Taplejung
- Categories: village development committee of Nepal, human settlement, municipality of Nepal, and locality
- Location: Phungling, Taplejung, Koshi Province, Middle Hills, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.3587° or 27° 21′ 31″ northLongitude
87.6727° or 87° 40′ 22″ eastElevation
1,788 metres (5,866 feet)IATA airport code
TPJUnited Nations Location Code
NP TPJOpen location code
7MV99M5F+F3OpenStreetMap ID
node 607154975OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bhojpuri to Urdu—“Taplejung” goes by many names.
- Bhojpuri: “फुंगलिंग”
- Bulgarian: “Пхунглинг”
- Cebuano: “Phungling”
- Chinese: “地旁莊”
- Chinese: “塔普勒瓊縣”
- Chinese: “蓬灵”
- Chinese: “蓬靈”
- Chinese: “達布萊宗”
- Dutch: “Taplejung”
- French: “Taplejung”
- German: “Phungling”
- German: “Taplejung”
- Irish: “Phungling”
- Japanese: “タプレジュン”
- Japanese: “プンリン”
- Maithili: “ताप्लेजुङ नगरपालिका”
- Malay: “Phungling”
- Nepali: “Tāplejuṅ”
- Nepali: “ताप्लेजुङ नगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “फुङलिङ नगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “फुङ्लिङ नगरपालिका”
- Newari: “फुङलिङ”
- Persian: “پونگلینگ”
- Persian: “تاپلجونگ”
- Polish: “Phungling”
- Russian: “Тапледжунг”
- Swedish: “Taplejung (kommun)”
- Swedish: “Taplejung”
- Urdu: “پھنگلنگ”
- Urdu: “تاپلیجونگ”
- “फुंगलिंग”
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