Bung () is a village development committee in

Solukhumbu District Solukhumbu District ( , Sherpa: , 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 co ...

in the

Sagarmatha Zone Sagarmāthā Zone (, ''"Sagarmāthā Anchal"'') was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructuring of zones into provinces. The headquarters of Sagarmatha is Rajbiraj. ''Sagarmāthā'' is a Nepali word which as per some sources, is ...

of north-eastern

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

. At the time of the

1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ...

it had a population of 3368 people living in 737 individual households. At the 2011 census, the population of Bung was 4520 inhabitants (2247 male) in 982 individual households. Bung lies in the

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, 54 km South of

Mount Everest Mount Everest (), known locally as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at it ...

and is bordered by the Hunku Drangka (East). Gudel lies on the other side of the valley of Bung.

Villages and Hamlets

Bung consists of several settlements and

Hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f ...

. The most important ones are: * ''Bung'' (1,800 m ) * ''Chambaling Gompa'' (2,530 m ) * '' Khiraule'' (2,460 m ) * ''Surke'' (2,960 m )

References

External links

UN map of the municipalities of Solukhumbu District
Populated places in Solukhumbu District {{Solukhumbu-geo-stub