Solukhumbu District , a part of the Sagarmatha Zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. As the name suggests, it consists of the subregions Solu and Khumbu.
The district, with Salleri as its district headquarters, covers an area of 3,312 km² and has a population (2001) of 107,686.
Mount Everest is located in the northern part of this district, within Sagarmatha National Park.
Indigenous ethnic Rai and hill Caste Chhetri are the main groups living in the mid-hills, while Sherpas occupy high mountains.Solukhumbu is situated in hillside of Nepal; the district famed by tourism and Mt. Everest; is not connected by road yet but around half dozen of domestic airlines have been providing regular flight service daily from Kathmandu to Lukla and Phaplu when the weather permits. Salleri is the headquarters of Solukhumbu District in the Sagarmatha Zone of northern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5368 people living in 1106 individual households.
