Key facts
- Country
- Nepal
- Province
- Koshi Province
- Admin hq
- Salleri
- Municipality
- List Urban Dudhkunda Rural Thulung Dudhkoshi Necha Salyan Dudhkoshi Maha Kulung Sotang Khumbu Pasanglhamu Likhu Pike
- Type
- Coordination committee
- Body
- DCC , Solukhumbu
- Head
- Bir Kumar Rai ( NCP )
- Chief district officer
- Anoj Kumar Ghimire
- Total
- 3,312 km (1,279 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 8,848 m (29,029 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 600 m (2,000 ft)
- Density
- 31.66/km (81.99/sq mi)
- Households
- 23,758
- Ethnic groups
- Rai Sherpa Chhetri Tamang Kulung Rai Kami Magar Bahun Nachhiring Rai Newar Damai Thulung Rai
- Female
- 52%
- Income per capita us dollars
- $1,841 per capita
- Literacy
- 64%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:45 ( NPT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Nepal
- Country
- Nepal
- Located in
- Koshi Province
- Population
- 104851
- Area
- 3312
- Highest point
- Mount Everest
- Official website
- ddcSolukhumbu.gov.np
- Image
- Luza, Machhermo, Mountains, Nepal.jpg
- Households
- 26319
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- topic's main category
- Category:Solukhumbu District
- Commons category
- Solukhumbu District
- male population
- 52747
- female population
- 52104
- native label
- सोलुखुम्बु जिल्ला
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Encyclopedic overview
Solukhumbu District (Nepali: सोलुखुम्बु जिल्ला [solukʰumbu] , Sherpa: ཤར་ཁུམ་བུ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: shar khum bu dzong) is one of 14 districts of Koshi Province of eastern Nepal. As the name suggests, it consists of the sub-regions Solu and Khumbu. The closest post office to Solukhumbu with a postal code assigned to it is the Sindhuli D.P.O., which has the postal code 56000.
The district, with Salleri as its headquarters, covers an area of 3,312 km (1,279 sq mi) and had a population of 104,851 in 2021, 105,886 in 2011, and 107,686 in 2001.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Solukhumbu District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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