TPJ

Taplejung Airport

ICAO VNTJ27.3509°N 87.6953°E2,435 m / 7,990 ftMedium airport
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Taplejung Airport (IATA: TPJ, ICAO: VNTJ) is a medium airport in Taplejung, Koshi Province, Nepal. It has one runway, 705 m (2,313 ft) long. In 2019 it handled 2 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
07/25
LENGTH705 m2,313 ftWIDTH—SURFACE—

Passengers per year

2014–2019
1K
893
3K
2K
2K
2K
141516171819

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsSita Air 1Summit Air 1Nepal Airlines 1Tara Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from TPJ. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Taplejung Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers2K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#3,141of 3,974 · #873 Asia · #23 NPLongest runway705 m2,313 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=22,023of 29,823 · #1,865 Asia · #18 NPElevation2,435 m7,990 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#252of 43,341 · #64 Asia · #10 NPRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =1 NP
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record