Bung, Nepal

Former Village Development Committee in Nepal

Village development committee in Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal

Bung, Nepal बुङ्
Village development committee
27°30′46″N 86°49′52″E / 27.51278°N 86.83111°E / 27.51278; 86.83111
Country	Nepal
Zone	Sagarmatha Zone
District	Solukhumbu District
Population (2011)
• Total	4,520
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)

Bung (Nepali: बुङ्) is a village development committee in Solukhumbu District in the Sagarmatha Zone of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3368 people living in 737 individual households.^[1] At the 2011 census, the population of Bung was 4520 inhabitants (2247 male) in 982 individual households.^[2] Bung lies in the Himalaya mountains, 54 km South of Mount Everest 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.^[3] The most important ones are:

Bung (1,800 m 27°30′47″N 86°49′54″E / 27.513031°N 86.831622°E / 27.513031; 86.831622 (Bung))
Chambaling Gompa (2,530 m 27°32′30″N 86°48′54″E / 27.541591°N 86.815078°E / 27.541591; 86.815078 (Chambaling Gompa))
Khiraule (2,460 m 27°32′30″N 86°48′54″E / 27.541676°N 86.814988°E / 27.541676; 86.814988 (Khiraule))
Surke (2,960 m 27°33′52″N 86°48′48″E / 27.564390°N 86.813271°E / 27.564390; 86.813271 (Surke))

References

^ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's Village Development Committees. Digital Himalaya. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 14 November 2008.
^ "National Population and Housing Census 2011" (PDF). Central Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-31.
^ "District: Solukhumbu. List of Settlements" (PDF). Index of Geographical names of Nepal. National Geographic Information Infrastructure Programme. www.ngiip.gov.np. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-09. Retrieved 2015-09-08.