Lumla is a town and the headquarters of an

eponymous An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. The adjectives which are derived from the word eponym include ''eponymous'' and ''eponymic''. Usage of the word The term ''epon ...

circle A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. Equivalently, it is the curve traced out by a point that moves in a plane so that its distance from a given point is const ...

in the

Tawang district Tawang district (Pron:/tɑ:ˈwæŋ or təˈwæŋ/) is the smallest of the 26 administrative districts of Arunachal Pradesh state in northeastern India. With a population of 49,977, it is the eighth least populous district in the country (out of ...

Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares int ...

, India. Lumla is at the southwestern corner of the Tawang district close to its border with

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...

. Lumla is also the headquarters of a subdivision of the Tawang district and the centre of a Legislative Assembly constituency. The current member of the legislative assembly (MLA) from Lumla is

Jambey Tashi Jambey Tashi ( – 2 November 2022) was an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Arunachal Pradesh, serving as the MLA of 1-Lumla constituency. He was also a Member of National Minority Morcha, BJP. Tashi had previously been a memb ...

Transport

Once completed the Bhalukpong-Tawang railway, is planned to be further extended by a 100 km long western spur to

Yongphulla Airport Yongphulla Airport (also known as Yonphula Airport) is a domestic airport in Bhutan, one of the country's four airports. It is located near Trashigang. History The airport was originally constructed by the Border Roads Organisation in the 1960 ...

in Bhutan (upgraded by

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and jointly used by the

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and Bhutan Army) in eastern Bhutan via Yabab in India and

Trashigang Trashigang ( dz, བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་།), or Tashigang, meaning "fortress of auspicious mount," is a town in eastern Bhutan and the district capital of the Trashigang Dzongkhag (district). The town lies to the east side of the ...

in Bhutan. In July 2020, BRO was tasked with building new strategic roads to connect eastern Bhutan to western

Tawang Tawang is a town and administrative headquarter of Tawang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The town was once the capital of the Tawang Tract, which is now divided into the Tawang district and the West Kameng district. Tawang c ...

area such as ''"Lumla-

road"'' through

Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in Bhutan, located in Merak and Sakteng Gewogs of Trashigang District and just crossing the border into Samdrup Jongkhar District. It is one of the country's protected areas and is listed as a ...

.India proposes to build road in Bhutan's ‘Yeti territory’ which China claimed recently
Economic Times, Jul 15, 2020. Nearest airport is

Tawang Air Force Station Tawang Air Force station in Arunachal Pradesh in India has a functional heliport and fixed-wing "''Advanced Landing Ground"'' (AGL) capable of handling Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft.UDAN ''Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik'' (Hindi for "Let the common citizens of the country fly"), known by its acronym ''UDAN'' (Hindi for "flight") is a regional airport development program of the Government of India and part of the Regional Connectivi ...

scheme.

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Villages in Tawang district Hill stations in Arunachal Pradesh Tourism in Northeast India {{ArunachalPradesh-geo-stub

Transport

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