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The World Factbook 2002
  Field Listing - Airports


This entry gives the total number of airports. The runway(s) may be paved (concrete or asphalt surfaces) or unpaved (grass, dirt, sand, or gravel surfaces), but must be usable. Not all airports have facilities for refueling, maintenance, or air traffic control.
Country
Airports
Afghanistan 46 (2001)
Albania 11 (2001)
Algeria 136 (2001)
American Samoa 4 (2001)
Andorra none (2001)
Angola 244 (2001)
Anguilla 3 (2001)
Antarctica 30 (2001)
note: 27 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
Antigua and Barbuda 3 (2001)
Argentina 1,369 (2001)
Armenia 7 (2001)
Aruba 1 (2001)
Australia 421 (2001)
Austria 55 (2001)
Azerbaijan 52 (2001)
Bahamas, The 67 (2001)
Bahrain 4 (2001)
Baker Island 1 abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m, completely covered with vegetation and unusable
Bangladesh 18 (2001)
Barbados 1 (2001)
Belarus 136 (2001)
Belgium 42 (2001)
Belize 44 (2001)
Benin 5 (2001)
Bermuda 1 (2001)
Bhutan 2 (2001)
Bolivia 1,109 (2001)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 27 (2001)
Botswana 92 (2001)
Brazil 3,365 (2001)
British Indian Ocean Territory 1 (2001)
British Virgin Islands 3 (2001)
Brunei 2 (2001)
Bulgaria 215 (2001)
Burkina Faso 33 (2001)
Burma 80 (2001)
Burundi 7 (2001)
Cambodia 20 (2001)
Cameroon 49 (2001)
Canada 1,419 (2001)
Cape Verde 9
note: 3 airports are reported to be nonoperational (2001)
Cayman Islands 3 (2001)
Central African Republic 51 (2001)
Chad 49 (2001)
Chile 363 (2001)
China 489 (2001)
Christmas Island 1 (2001)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1 (2001)
Colombia 1,066 (2001)
Comoros 4 (2001)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 232 (2001)
Congo, Republic of the 33 (2001)
Cook Islands 7 (2001)
Costa Rica 152 (2001)
Cote d'Ivoire 36 (2001)
Croatia 67 (2001)
Cuba 172 (2001)
Cyprus 15 (2001)
Czech Republic 121 (2001)
Denmark 116 (2001)
Djibouti 12 (2001)
Dominica 2 (2001)
Dominican Republic 29 (2001)
East Timor 8 (2001)
Ecuador 205 (2001)
Egypt 92 (2001)
El Salvador 83 (2001)
Equatorial Guinea 3 (2001)
Eritrea 21 (2001)
Estonia 32 (2001)
Ethiopia 86 (2001)
Europa Island 1 (2001)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 5 (2001)
Faroe Islands 1 (2001)
Fiji 27 (2001)
Finland 160 (2001)
France 477 (2001)
French Guiana 11 (2001)
French Polynesia 45 (2001)
French Southern and Antarctic Lands none (2001)
Gabon 59 (2001)
Gambia, The 1 (2001)
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
Georgia 31 (2001)
Germany 625 (2001)
Ghana 12 (2001)
Gibraltar 1 (2001)
Glorioso Islands 1 (2001)
Greece 79 (note - new Athens airport at Spafa opened in March 2001) (2001)
Greenland 15 (2001)
Grenada 3 (2001)
Guadeloupe 9 (2001)
Guam 5 (2001)
Guatemala 475 (2001)
Guernsey 2 (2001)
Guinea 15 (2001)
Guinea-Bissau 28 (2001)
Guyana 51 (2001)
Haiti 12 (2001)
Holy See (Vatican City) none (2001)
Honduras 117 (2001)
Hong Kong 3 (2001)
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
Hungary 43 (2001)
Iceland 86 (2001)
India 335 (2001)
Indonesia 490 (2001)
Iran 322 (2001)
Iraq 108 (2001)
Ireland 41 (2001)
Israel 54 (2001)
Italy 135 (2001)
Jamaica 35 (2001)
Jan Mayen 1 (2001)
Japan 173 (2001)
Jersey 1 (2001)
Johnston Atoll 1 (2001)
Jordan 18 (2001)
Juan de Nova Island 1 (2001)
Kazakhstan 449 (2001)
Kenya 231 (2001)
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
Kiribati 21 (2001)
Korea, North 87 (2001)
Korea, South 102 (2001)
Kuwait 7 (2001)
Kyrgyzstan 50 (2001)
Laos 51 (2001)
Latvia 25 (2001)
Lebanon 8 (2001)
Lesotho 28 (2001)
Liberia 47 (2001)
Libya 136 (2001)
Liechtenstein none (2001)
Lithuania 72 (2001)
Luxembourg 2 (2001)
Macau 1 (2001)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of 17 (2001)
Madagascar 130 (2001)
Malawi 44 (2001)
Malaysia 116 (2001)
Maldives 5 (2001)
Mali 27 (2001)
Malta 1 (2001)
Man, Isle of 1 (2001)
Marshall Islands 17 (2001)
Martinique 2 (2001)
Mauritania 26 (2001)
Mauritius 5 (2001)
Mayotte 1 (2001)
Mexico 1,852 (2001)
Micronesia, Federated States of 7 (2001)
Midway Islands 3 (2001)
Moldova 30 (2001)
Monaco none; linked to airport in Nice, France, by helicopter service (2001)
Mongolia 34 (2001)
Montserrat 1 (2001)
Morocco 67 (2001)
Mozambique 166 (2001)
Namibia 137 (2001)
Nauru 1 (2001)
Nepal 45 (2001)
Netherlands 28 (2001)
Netherlands Antilles 5 (2001)
New Caledonia 29 (2001)
New Zealand 106 (2001)
Nicaragua 182 (2001)
Niger 26 (2001)
Nigeria 70 (2001)
Niue 1 (2001)
Norfolk Island 1 (2001)
Northern Mariana Islands 6 (2001)
Norway 102 (2001)
Oman 143 (2001)
Pakistan 120 (2001)
Palau 3 (2001)
Palmyra Atoll 1 (2001)
Panama 107 (2001)
Papua New Guinea 490 (2001)
Paracel Islands 1 (2001)
Paraguay 899 (2001)
Peru 239 (2001)
Philippines 275 (2001)
Pitcairn Islands none (2001)
Poland 122 (2001)
Portugal 67 (2001)
Puerto Rico 30 (2001)
Qatar 4 (2001)
Reunion 2 (2001)
Romania 61 (2001)
Russia 2,743 (2001)
Rwanda 8 (2001)
Saint Helena 1 (2001)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2 (2001)
Saint Lucia 2 (2001)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 2 (2001)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 6 (2001)
Samoa 3 (2001)
San Marino none (2001)
Sao Tome and Principe 2 (2001)
Saudi Arabia 209 (2001)
Senegal 20 (2001)
Seychelles 14 (2001)
Sierra Leone 10 (2001)
Singapore 9 (2001)
Slovakia 34 (2001)
Slovenia 14 (2001)
Solomon Islands 31 (2001)
Somalia 54 (2001)
South Africa 740 (2001)
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands none (2001)
Spain 133 (2001)
Spratly Islands 4 (2001)
Sri Lanka 15 (2001)
Sudan 65 (2001)
Suriname 46 (2001)
Svalbard 4 (2001)
Swaziland 18 (2001)
Sweden 255 (2001)
Switzerland 66 (2001)
Syria 99 (2001)
Taiwan 39 (2001)
Tajikistan 53 (2001)
Tanzania 125 (2001)
Thailand 110 (2001)
Togo 9 (2001)
Tokelau none; lagoon landings are possible by amphibious aircraft (2001)
Tonga 6 (2001)
Trinidad and Tobago 6 (2001)
Tromelin Island 1 (2001)
Tunisia 30 (2001)
Turkey 120 (2001)
Turkmenistan 76 (2001)
Turks and Caicos Islands 8 (2001)
Tuvalu 1 (2001)
Uganda 27 (2001)
Ukraine 718 (2001)
United Arab Emirates 38 (2001)
United Kingdom 470 (2001)
United States 14,695 (2001)
Uruguay 64 (2001)
Uzbekistan 267 (2001)
Vanuatu 31 (2001)
Venezuela 372 (2001)
Vietnam 34 (2001)
Virgin Islands 2 (2001)
Wake Island 1 (2001)
Wallis and Futuna 2 (2001)
West Bank 3 (2001)
Western Sahara 11 (2001)
Yemen 49 (2001)
Yugoslavia 46 (2001)
Zambia 111 (2001)
Zimbabwe 454 (2001)

This page was last updated on 1 January 2002
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