Country
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Airports
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Afghanistan
|
47 (2003 est.)
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Albania
|
11 (2003 est.)
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Algeria
|
137 (2003 est.)
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American Samoa
|
3 (2003 est.)
|
Andorra
|
none
|
Angola
|
244 (2003 est.)
|
Anguilla
|
3 (2003 est.)
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Antarctica
|
there are no developed public access airports or landing facilities; 30 stations, operated by 16 national governments party to the Antarctic Treaty, have restricted 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 (2003 est.)
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Antigua and Barbuda
|
3 (2003 est.)
|
Argentina
|
1,335 (2003 est.)
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Armenia
|
17 (2003 est.)
|
Aruba
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Australia
|
444 (2003 est.)
|
Austria
|
55 (2003 est.)
|
Azerbaijan
|
67 (2003 est.)
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Bahamas, The
|
63 (2003 est.)
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Bahrain
|
4 (2003 est.)
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Baker Island
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1 abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m, completely covered with vegetation and unusable (2003 est.)
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Bangladesh
|
16 (2003 est.)
|
Barbados
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Belarus
|
135 (2003 est.)
|
Belgium
|
42 (2003 est.)
|
Belize
|
43 (2003 est.)
|
Benin
|
5 (2003 est.)
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Bermuda
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Bhutan
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Bolivia
|
1,067 (2003 est.)
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
27 (2003 est.)
|
Botswana
|
85 (2003 est.)
|
Brazil
|
3,803 (2003 est.)
|
British Indian Ocean Territory
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
British Virgin Islands
|
3 (2003 est.)
|
Brunei
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Bulgaria
|
212 (2003 est.)
|
Burkina Faso
|
33 (2003 est.)
|
Burma
|
79 (2003 est.)
|
Burundi
|
8 (2003 est.)
|
Cambodia
|
20 (2003 est.)
|
Cameroon
|
47 (2003 est.)
|
Canada
|
1,357 (2003 est.)
|
Cape Verde
|
7
note: 3 airports are reported to be nonoperational (2003 est.)
|
Cayman Islands
|
3 (2003 est.)
|
Central African Republic
|
50 (2003 est.)
|
Chad
|
50 (2003 est.)
|
Chile
|
363 (2003 est.)
|
China
|
507 (2003 est.)
|
Christmas Island
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Colombia
|
980 (2003 est.)
|
Comoros
|
4 (2003 est.)
|
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
|
230 (2003 est.)
|
Congo, Republic of the
|
32 (2003 est.)
|
Cook Islands
|
9 (2003 est.)
|
Costa Rica
|
149 (2003 est.)
|
Cote d'Ivoire
|
37 (2003 est.)
|
Croatia
|
68 (2003 est.)
|
Cuba
|
170 (2003 est.)
|
Cyprus
|
17 (2003 est.)
|
Czech Republic
|
120 (2003 est.)
|
Denmark
|
99 (2003 est.)
|
Djibouti
|
13 (2003 est.)
|
Dominica
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Dominican Republic
|
31 (2003 est.)
|
East Timor
|
8 (2003 est.)
|
Ecuador
|
205 (2003 est.)
|
Egypt
|
89 (2003 est.)
|
El Salvador
|
73 (2003 est.)
|
Equatorial Guinea
|
3 (2003 est.)
|
Eritrea
|
18 (2003 est.)
|
Estonia
|
29 (2003 est.)
|
Ethiopia
|
82 (2003 est.)
|
Europa Island
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
|
5 (2003 est.)
|
Faroe Islands
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Fiji
|
28 (2003 est.)
|
Finland
|
148 (2003 est.)
|
France
|
477 (2003 est.)
|
French Guiana
|
11 (2003 est.)
|
French Polynesia
|
49 (2003 est.)
|
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
|
none
|
Gabon
|
56 (2003 est.)
|
Gambia, The
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
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 (2003 est.)
|
Georgia
|
31 (2003 est.)
|
Germany
|
550 (2003 est.)
|
Ghana
|
12 (2003 est.)
|
Gibraltar
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Glorioso Islands
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Greece
|
79 (note - new Athens airport at Spata opened in March 2001) (2003 est.)
|
Greenland
|
14 (2003 est.)
|
Grenada
|
3 (2003 est.)
|
Guadeloupe
|
9 (2003 est.)
|
Guam
|
5 (2003 est.)
|
Guatemala
|
452 (2003 est.)
|
Guernsey
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Guinea
|
16 (2003 est.)
|
Guinea-Bissau
|
28 (2003 est.)
|
Guyana
|
49 (2003 est.)
|
Haiti
|
12 (2003 est.)
|
Holy See (Vatican City)
|
none (2003 est.)
|
Honduras
|
115 (2003 est.)
|
Hong Kong
|
4 (2003 est.)
|
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 (2003 est.)
|
Hungary
|
43 (2003 est.)
|
Iceland
|
100 (2003 est.)
|
India
|
333 (2003 est.)
|
Indonesia
|
661 (2003 est.)
|
Iran
|
303 (2003 est.)
|
Iraq
|
111; note - unknown number were damaged during the March-April 2003 war (2003 est.)
|
Ireland
|
36 (2003 est.)
|
Israel
|
51 (2003 est.)
|
Italy
|
134 (2003 est.)
|
Jamaica
|
35 (2003 est.)
|
Jan Mayen
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Japan
|
174 (2003 est.)
|
Jersey
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Johnston Atoll
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Jordan
|
17 (2003 est.)
|
Juan de Nova Island
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Kazakhstan
|
392 (2003 est.)
|
Kenya
|
221 (2003 est.)
|
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 (2003 est.)
|
Kiribati
|
20 (2003 est.)
|
Korea, North
|
78 (2003 est.)
|
Korea, South
|
102 (2003 est.)
|
Kuwait
|
7 (2003 est.)
|
Kyrgyzstan
|
61 (2003 est.)
|
Laos
|
46 (2003 est.)
|
Latvia
|
51 (2003 est.)
|
Lebanon
|
8 (2003 est.)
|
Lesotho
|
28 (2003 est.)
|
Liberia
|
53 (2003 est.)
|
Libya
|
140 (2003 est.)
|
Liechtenstein
|
none (2003 est.)
|
Lithuania
|
102 (2003 est.)
|
Luxembourg
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Macau
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
|
17 (2003 est.)
|
Madagascar
|
116 (2003 est.)
|
Malawi
|
42 (2003 est.)
|
Malaysia
|
117 (2003 est.)
|
Maldives
|
5 (2003 est.)
|
Mali
|
27 (2003 est.)
|
Malta
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Man, Isle of
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Marshall Islands
|
15 (2003 est.)
|
Martinique
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Mauritania
|
24 (2003 est.)
|
Mauritius
|
5 (2003 est.)
|
Mayotte
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Mexico
|
1,827 (2003 est.)
|
Micronesia, Federated States of
|
6 (2003 est.)
|
Midway Islands
|
3 (2003 est.)
|
Moldova
|
24 (2003 est.)
|
Monaco
|
none; linked to the airport at Nice, France by helicopter service (2003) (2003 est.)
|
Mongolia
|
36 (2003 est.)
|
Montserrat
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Morocco
|
64 (2003 est.)
|
Mozambique
|
158 (2003 est.)
|
Namibia
|
136 (2003 est.)
|
Nauru
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Nepal
|
46 (2003 est.)
|
Netherlands
|
27 (2003 est.)
|
Netherlands Antilles
|
5 (2003 est.)
|
New Caledonia
|
25 (2003 est.)
|
New Zealand
|
113 (2003 est.)
|
Nicaragua
|
176 (2003 est.)
|
Niger
|
27 (2003 est.)
|
Nigeria
|
70 (2003 est.)
|
Niue
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Norfolk Island
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Northern Mariana Islands
|
6 (2003 est.)
|
Norway
|
101 (2003 est.)
|
Oman
|
135 (2003 est.)
|
Pakistan
|
129 (2003 est.)
|
Palau
|
3 (2003 est.)
|
Palmyra Atoll
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Panama
|
103 (2003 est.)
|
Papua New Guinea
|
559 (2003 est.)
|
Paracel Islands
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Paraguay
|
880 (2003 est.)
|
Peru
|
233 (2003 est.)
|
Philippines
|
253 (2003 est.)
|
Pitcairn Islands
|
none (2003 est.)
|
Poland
|
122 (2003 est.)
|
Portugal
|
66 (2003 est.)
|
Puerto Rico
|
30 (2003 est.)
|
Qatar
|
4 (2003 est.)
|
Reunion
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Romania
|
62 (2003 est.)
|
Russia
|
2,609 (2003 est.)
|
Rwanda
|
9 (2003 est.)
|
Saint Helena
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Saint Kitts and Nevis
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Saint Lucia
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
|
6 (2003 est.)
|
Samoa
|
4 (2003 est.)
|
San Marino
|
none (2003 est.)
|
Sao Tome and Principe
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Saudi Arabia
|
204 (2003 est.)
|
Senegal
|
20 (2003 est.)
|
Serbia and Montenegro
|
45 (2003 est.)
|
Seychelles
|
15 (2003 est.)
|
Sierra Leone
|
10 (2003 est.)
|
Singapore
|
9 (2003 est.)
|
Slovakia
|
34 (2003 est.)
|
Slovenia
|
14 (2003 est.)
|
Solomon Islands
|
33 (2003 est.)
|
Somalia
|
60 (2003 est.)
|
South Africa
|
728 (2003 est.)
|
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
|
none (2003 est.)
|
Spain
|
156 (2003 est.)
|
Spratly Islands
|
3 (2003 est.)
|
Sri Lanka
|
14 (2003 est.)
|
Sudan
|
63 (2003 est.)
|
Suriname
|
46 (2003 est.)
|
Svalbard
|
4 (2003 est.)
|
Swaziland
|
18 (2003 est.)
|
Sweden
|
255 (2003 est.)
|
Switzerland
|
65 (2003 est.)
|
Syria
|
93 (2003 est.)
|
Taiwan
|
40 (2003 est.)
|
Tajikistan
|
66 (2003 est.)
|
Tanzania
|
123 (2003 est.)
|
Thailand
|
109 (2003 est.)
|
Togo
|
9 (2003 est.)
|
Tokelau
|
none; lagoon landings are possible by amphibious aircraft (2003 est.)
|
Tonga
|
6 (2003 est.)
|
Trinidad and Tobago
|
6 (2003 est.)
|
Tromelin Island
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Tunisia
|
30 (2003 est.)
|
Turkey
|
120 (2003 est.)
|
Turkmenistan
|
69 (2003 est.)
|
Turks and Caicos Islands
|
8 (2003 est.)
|
Tuvalu
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Uganda
|
27 (2003 est.)
|
Ukraine
|
702 (2003 est.)
|
United Arab Emirates
|
35 (2003 est.)
|
United Kingdom
|
471 (2003 est.)
|
United States
|
14,807 (2003 est.)
|
Uruguay
|
64 (2003 est.)
|
Uzbekistan
|
247 (2003 est.)
|
Vanuatu
|
30 (2003 est.)
|
Venezuela
|
368 (2003 est.)
|
Vietnam
|
19 (2003 est.)
|
Virgin Islands
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
Wake Island
|
1 (2003 est.)
|
Wallis and Futuna
|
2 (2003 est.)
|
West Bank
|
3 (2003 est.)
|
Western Sahara
|
11 (2003 est.)
|
Yemen
|
44 (2003 est.)
|
Zambia
|
109 (2003 est.)
|
Zimbabwe
|
404 (2003 est.)
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