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@2053 Airports
Afghanistan
47 (2002)
Albania
12 (2002)
Algeria
136 (2002)
American Samoa
3 (2002)
Andorra
none (2002)
Angola
243 (2002)
Anguilla
3 (2002)
Antarctica
30
note: 30 stations, operated by 16 national governments party to the
Antarctic Treaty, have aircraft landing facilities for either
helicopters and/or fixed-wing aircraft; commercial enterprises
operate two additional aircraft landing facilities; helicopter pads
are available at 27 stations; runways at 15 locations are gravel,
sea-ice, blue-ice, or compacted snow suitable for landing wheeled,
fixed-wing aircraft; of these, 1 is greater than 3 km in length, 6
are between 2 km and 3 km in length, 3 are between 1 km and 2 km in
length, 3 are less than 1 km in length, and 2 are of unknown length;
snow surface skiways, limited to use by ski-equipped, fixed-wing
aircraft, are available at another 15 locations; of these, 4 are
greater than 3 km in length, 3 are between 2 km and 3 km in length,
2 are between 1 km and 2 km in length, 2 are less than 1 km in
length, and 4 are of unknown length; aircraft landing facilities
generally subject to severe restrictions and limitations resulting
from extreme seasonal and geographic conditions; aircraft landing
facilities do not meet ICAO standards; advance approval from the
respective governmental or nongovernmental operating organization
required for landing; landed aircraft are subject to inspection in
accordance with Article 7, Antarctic Treaty (2002)
Antigua and Barbuda
3 (2002)
Argentina
1,342 (2002)
Armenia
15 (2002)
Aruba
1 (2002)
Australia
444 (2002)
Austria
55 (2002)
Azerbaijan
71 (2002)
Bahamas, The
64 (2002)
Bahrain
4 (2002)
Baker Island
1 abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m, completely
covered with vegetation and unusable (2002)
Bangladesh
18 (2002)
Barbados
1 (2002)
Belarus
124 (2002)
Belgium
42 (2002)
Belize
42 (2002)
Benin
5 (2002)
Bermuda
1 (2002)
Bhutan
2 (2002)
Bolivia
1,081 (2002)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
32 (2002)
Botswana
86 (2002)
Brazil
3,590 (2002)
British Indian Ocean Territory
1 (2002)
British Virgin Islands
3 (2002)
Brunei
2 (2002)
Bulgaria
216 (2002)
Burkina Faso
33 (2002)
Burma
80 (2002)
Burundi
7 (2002)
Cambodia
21 (2002)
Cameroon
49 (2002)
Canada
1,389 (2002)
Cape Verde
9
note: 3 airports are reported to be nonoperational (2002)
Cayman Islands
3 (2002)
Central African Republic
50 (2002)
Chad
50 (2002)
Chile
363 (2002)
China
500 (2002)
Christmas Island
1 (2002)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
1 (2002)
Colombia
1,050 (2002)
Comoros
4 (2002)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
229 (2002)
Congo, Republic of the
31 (2002)
Cook Islands
7 (2002)
Costa Rica
151 (2002)
Cote d'Ivoire
36 (2002)
Croatia
59 (2002)
Cuba
161 (2002)
Cyprus
16 (2002)
Czech Republic
144 (2002)
Denmark
104 (2002)
Djibouti
13 (2002)
Dominica
2 (2002)
Dominican Republic
30 (2002)
East Timor
8 (2002)
Ecuador
205 (2002)
Egypt
89 (2002)
El Salvador
82 (2002)
Equatorial Guinea
3 (2002)
Eritrea
18 (2002)
Estonia
38 (2002)
Ethiopia
83 (2002)
Europa Island
1 (2002)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
5 (2002)
Faroe Islands
1 (2002)
Fiji
27 (2002)
Finland
150 (2002)
France
477 (2002)
French Guiana
11 (2002)
French Polynesia
45 (2002)
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
none (2002)
Gabon
57 (2002)
Gambia, The
1 (2002)
Gaza Strip
2 (2001)
note: includes Gaza International Airport (GIA), inaugurated on 24
November 1998 as part of agreements stipulated in the September 1995
Oslo II Accord and the 23 October 1998 Wye River Memorandum; GIA has
been largely closed since October 2000 by Israeli orders and its
runway was destroyed by the Israeli Defense Forces in December 2001
(2002)
Georgia
40 (2002)
Germany
551 (2002)
Ghana
12 (2002)
Gibraltar
1 (2002)
Glorioso Islands
1 (2002)
Greece
79 (note - new Athens airport at Spata opened in March 2001)
(2002)
Greenland
14 (2002)
Grenada
3 (2002)
Guadeloupe
9 (2002)
Guam
5 (2002)
Guatemala
466 (2002)
Guernsey
2 (2002)
Guinea
15 (2002)
Guinea-Bissau
28 (2002)
Guyana
51 (2002)
Haiti
12 (2002)
Holy See (Vatican City)
none (2002)
Honduras
115 (2002)
Hong Kong
3 (2002)
Howland Island
airstrip constructed in 1937 for scheduled refueling
stop on the round-the-world flight of Amelia EARHART and Fred NOONAN
- they left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island, but were never seen
again; the airstrip is no longer serviceable (2002)
Hungary
49 (2002)
Iceland
86 (2002)
India
334 (2002)
Indonesia
631 (2002)
Iran
309 (2002)
Iraq
150 (2002); note - unknown number were damaged during the
March-April 2003 war
Ireland
36 (2002)
Israel
52 (2002)
Italy
134 (2002)
Jamaica
35 (2002)
Jan Mayen
1 (2002)
Japan
172 (2002)
Jersey
1 (2002)
Johnston Atoll
1 (2002)
Jordan
17 (2002)
Juan de Nova Island
1 (2002)
Kazakhstan
488 (2002)
Kenya
230 (2002)
Kingman Reef
lagoon was used as a halfway station between Hawaii and
American Samoa by Pan American Airways for flying boats in 1937 and
1938 (2002)
Kiribati
20 (2002)
Korea, North
72 (2002)
Korea, South
102 (2002)
Kuwait
6 (2002)
Kyrgyzstan
68 (2002)
Laos
51 (2002)
Latvia
38 (2002)
Lebanon
8 (2002)
Lesotho
28 (2002)
Liberia
47 (2002)
Libya
136 (2002)
Liechtenstein
none (2002)
Lithuania
87 (2002)
Luxembourg
2 (2002)
Macau
1 (2002)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
18 (2002)
Madagascar
121 (2002)
Malawi
43 (2002)
Malaysia
114 (2002)
Maldives
5 (2002)
Mali
26 (2002)
Malta
1 (2002)
Man, Isle of
1 (2002)
Marshall Islands
15 (2002)
Martinique
2 (2002)
Mauritania
26 (2002)
Mauritius
5 (2002)
Mayotte
1 (2002)
Mexico
1,823 (2002)
Micronesia, Federated States of
7 (2002)
Midway Islands
2 (2002)
Moldova
36 (2002)
Monaco
none; linked to airport in Nice, France, by helicopter
service (2002)
Mongolia
50 (2002)
Montserrat
none; only airport was destroyed by volcanic activity; a
helicopter service to Antigua is used (2002)
Morocco
63 (2002)
Mozambique
165 (2002)
Namibia
135 (2002)
Nauru
1 (2002)
Nepal
45 (2002)
Netherlands
28 (2002)
Netherlands Antilles
5 (2002)
New Caledonia
30 (2002)
New Zealand
113 (2002)
Nicaragua
176 (2002)
Niger
27 (2002)
Nigeria
70 (2002)
Niue
1 (2002)
Norfolk Island
1 (2002)
Northern Mariana Islands
6 (2002)
Norway
102 (2002)
Oman
139 (2002)
Pakistan
124 (2002)
Palau
3 (2002)
Palmyra Atoll
1 (2002)
Panama
103 (2002)
Papua New Guinea
491 (2002)
Paracel Islands
1 (2002)
Paraguay
879 (2002)
Peru
233 (2002)
Philippines
257 (2002)
Pitcairn Islands
none (2002)
Poland
150 (2002)
Portugal
66 (2002)
Puerto Rico
31 (2002)
Qatar
4 (2002)
Reunion
2 (2002)
Romania
65 (2002)
Russia
2,743 (2002)
Rwanda
9 (2002)
Saint Helena
1 (2002)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
2 (2002)
Saint Lucia
2 (2002)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
2 (2002)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
6 (2002)
Samoa
4 (2002)
San Marino
none (2002)
Sao Tome and Principe
2 (2002)
Saudi Arabia
209 (2002)
Senegal
20 (2002)
Serbia and Montenegro
45 (2002)
Seychelles
14 (2002)
Sierra Leone
10 (2002)
Singapore
9 (2002)
Slovakia
37 (2002)
Slovenia
16 (2002)
Solomon Islands
32 (2002)
Somalia
60 (2002)
South Africa
727 (2002)
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
none (2002)
Spain
152 (2002)
Spratly Islands
3 (2002)
Sri Lanka
15 (2002)
Sudan
63 (2002)
Suriname
46 (2002)
Svalbard
4 (2002)
Swaziland
18 (2002)
Sweden
245 (2002)
Switzerland
66 (2002)
Syria
92 (2002)
Taiwan
39 (2002)
Tajikistan
66 (2002)
Tanzania
123 (2002)
Thailand
111 (2002)
Togo
9 (2002)
Tokelau
none; lagoon landings are possible by amphibious aircraft
(2002)
Tonga
6 (2002)
Trinidad and Tobago
6 (2002)
Tromelin Island
1 (2002)
Tunisia
30 (2002)
Turkey
120 (2002)
Turkmenistan
76 (2002)
Turks and Caicos Islands
8 (2002)
Tuvalu
1 (2002)
Uganda
27 (2002)
Ukraine
790 (2002)
United Arab Emirates
41 (2002)
United Kingdom
470 (2002)
United States
14,801 (2002)
Uruguay
64 (2002)
Uzbekistan
273 (2002)
Vanuatu
30 (2002)
Venezuela
373 (2002)
Vietnam
47 (2002)
Virgin Islands
2 (2002)
Wake Island
1 (2002)
Wallis and Futuna
2 (2002)
West Bank
3 (2002)
Western Sahara
11 (2002)
Yemen
44 (2002)
Zambia
109 (2002)
Zimbabwe
430 (2002)