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Country
Airports
Afghanistan 47 (2004 est.)
Albania 11 (2004 est.)
Algeria 137 (2004 est.)
American Samoa 3 (2004 est.)
Andorra none (2004 est.)
Angola 243 (2004 est.)
Anguilla 3 (2004 est.)
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 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, one is greater than 3 km in length, six are between 2 km and 3 km in length, three are between 1 km and 2 km in length, three are less than 1 km in length, and two are of unknown length; snow surface skiways, limited to use by ski-equipped, fixed-wing aircraft, are available at another 15 locations; of these, four are greater than 3 km in length, three are between 2 km and 3 km in length, two are between 1 km and 2 km in length, two are less than 1 km in length, and four 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 using their facilities; landed aircraft are subject to inspection in accordance with Article 7, Antarctic Treaty; guidelines for the operation of aircraft near concentrations of birds in Antarctica were adopted in 2004; relevant legal instruments and authorization procedures adopted by states party to the Antarctic Treaty regulating access to the Antarctic Treaty area, that is to all areas between 60 and 90 degrees of latitude South, have to be complied with (see information under "Legal System"); an Antarctic Flight Information Manual (AFIM) providing up-to-date details of Antarctic air facilities and procedures is maintained and published by the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (2004 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda 3 (2004 est.)
Argentina 1,334 (2004 est.)
Armenia 16 (2004 est.)
Aruba 1 (2004 est.)
Australia 448 (2004 est.)
Austria 55 (2004 est.)
Azerbaijan 50 (2004 est.)
Bahamas, The 63 (2004 est.)
Bahrain 4 (2004 est.)
Baker Island 1 abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m, completely covered with vegetation and unusable (2004 est.)
Bangladesh 16 (2004 est.)
Barbados 1 (2004 est.)
Belarus 133 (2004 est.)
Belgium 43 (2004 est.)
Belize 43 (2004 est.)
Benin 5 (2004 est.)
Bermuda 1 (2004 est.)
Bhutan 2 (2004 est.)
Bolivia 1,065 (2004 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 27 (2004 est.)
Botswana 85 (2004 est.)
Brazil 4,136 (2004 est.)
British Indian Ocean Territory 1 (2004 est.)
British Virgin Islands 3 (2004 est.)
Brunei 2 (2004 est.)
Bulgaria 213 (2004 est.)
Burkina Faso 33 (2004 est.)
Burma 78 (2004 est.)
Burundi 8 (2004 est.)
Cambodia 20 (2004 est.)
Cameroon 47 (2004 est.)
Canada 1,326 (2004 est.)
Cape Verde 7
note: 3 airports are reported to be nonoperational (2004 est.)
Cayman Islands 3 (2004 est.)
Central African Republic 50 (2004 est.)
Chad 50 (2004 est.)
Chile 364 (2004 est.)
China 472 (2004 est.)
Christmas Island 1 (2004 est.)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1 (2004 est.)
Colombia 980 (2004 est.)
Comoros 4 (2004 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 230 (2004 est.)
Congo, Republic of the 32 (2004 est.)
Cook Islands 9 (2004 est.)
Costa Rica 149 (2004 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire 37 (2004 est.)
Croatia 68 (2004 est.)
Cuba 170 (2004 est.)
Cyprus 17 (2004 est.)
Czech Republic 120 (2004 est.)
Denmark 97 (2004 est.)
Djibouti 13 (2004 est.)
Dominica 2 (2004 est.)
Dominican Republic 31 (2004 est.)
East Timor 8 (2004 est.)
Ecuador 205 (2004 est.)
Egypt 87 (2004 est.)
El Salvador 73 (2004 est.)
Equatorial Guinea 4 (2004 est.)
Eritrea 17 (2004 est.)
Estonia 29 (2004 est.)
Ethiopia 83 (2004 est.)
Europa Island 1 (2004 est.)
European Union total: 3,130
with paved runways: 1,834
with unpaved runways: 1,296 (2004 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 5 (2004 est.)
Faroe Islands 1 (2004 est.)
Fiji 28 (2004 est.)
Finland 148 (2004 est.)
France 478 (2004 est.)
French Guiana 11 (2004 est.)
French Polynesia 50 (2004 est.)
French Southern and Antarctic Lands none (2004 est.)
Gabon 56 (2004 est.)
Gambia, The 1 (2004 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 (2004 est.)
Georgia 30 (2004 est.)
Germany 550 (2004 est.)
Ghana 12 (2004 est.)
Gibraltar 1 (2004 est.)
Glorioso Islands 1 (2004 est.)
Greece 80 (2004 est.)
Greenland 14 (2004 est.)
Grenada 3 (2004 est.)
Guadeloupe 9 (2004 est.)
Guam 5 (2004 est.)
Guatemala 452 (2004 est.)
Guernsey 2 (2004 est.)
Guinea 16 (2004 est.)
Guinea-Bissau 28 (2004 est.)
Guyana 49 (2004 est.)
Haiti 13 (2004 est.)
Holy See (Vatican City) none (2004 est.)
Honduras 115 (2004 est.)
Hong Kong 4 (2004 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 (2004 est.)
Hungary 44 (2004 est.)
Iceland 98 (2004 est.)
India 333 (2004 est.)
Indonesia 667 (2004 est.)
Iran 305 (2004 est.)
Iraq 111; note - unknown number were damaged during the March-April 2003 war (2004 est.)
Ireland 36 (2004 est.)
Israel 51 (2004 est.)
Italy 134 (2004 est.)
Jamaica 35 (2004 est.)
Jan Mayen 1 (2004 est.)
Japan 174 (2004 est.)
Jersey 1 (2004 est.)
Johnston Atoll 1 (2004 est.)
Jordan 17 (2004 est.)
Juan de Nova Island 1 (2004 est.)
Kazakhstan 315 (2004 est.)
Kenya 221 (2004 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 (2004 est.)
Kiribati 20 (2004 est.)
Korea, North 78 (2004 est.)
Korea, South 179 (2004 est.)
Kuwait 7 (2004 est.)
Kyrgyzstan 52 (2004 est.)
Laos 44 (2004 est.)
Latvia 50 (2004 est.)
Lebanon 8 (2004 est.)
Lesotho 28 (2004 est.)
Liberia 53 (2004 est.)
Libya 139 (2004 est.)
Liechtenstein none (2004 est.)
Lithuania 102 (2004 est.)
Luxembourg 2 (2004 est.)
Macau 1 (2004 est.)
Macedonia 17 (2004 est.)
Madagascar 116 (2004 est.)
Malawi 42 (2004 est.)
Malaysia 117 (2004 est.)
Maldives 5 (2004 est.)
Mali 28 (2004 est.)
Malta 1 (2004 est.)
Man, Isle of 1 (2004 est.)
Marshall Islands 15 (2004 est.)
Martinique 2 (2004 est.)
Mauritania 24 (2004 est.)
Mauritius 6 (2004 est.)
Mayotte 1 (2004 est.)
Mexico 1,833 (2004 est.)
Micronesia, Federated States of 6 (2004 est.)
Midway Islands 3 (2004 est.)
Moldova 23 (2004 est.)
Monaco none; linked to the airport at Nice, France by helicopter service (2004 est.)
Mongolia 46 (2004 est.)
Montserrat 1 (2004 est.)
Morocco 63 (2004 est.)
Mozambique 158 (2004 est.)
Namibia 136 (2004 est.)
Nauru 1 (2004 est.)
Nepal 46 (2004 est.)
Netherlands 27 (2004 est.)
Netherlands Antilles 5 (2004 est.)
New Caledonia 25 (2004 est.)
New Zealand 116 (2004 est.)
Nicaragua 176 (2004 est.)
Niger 27 (2004 est.)
Nigeria 70 (2004 est.)
Niue 1 (2004 est.)
Norfolk Island 1 (2004 est.)
Northern Mariana Islands 5 (2004 est.)
Norway 101 (2004 est.)
Oman 136 (2004 est.)
Pakistan 131 (2004 est.)
Palau 3 (2004 est.)
Palmyra Atoll 1 (2004 est.)
Panama 105 (2004 est.)
Papua New Guinea 571 (2004 est.)
Paracel Islands 1 (2004 est.)
Paraguay 878 (2004 est.)
Peru 234 (2004 est.)
Philippines 255 (2004 est.)
Pitcairn Islands none (2004 est.)
Poland 123 (2004 est.)
Portugal 65 (2004 est.)
Puerto Rico 30 (2004 est.)
Qatar 4 (2004 est.)
Reunion 2 (2004 est.)
Romania 61 (2004 est.)
Russia 2,586 (2004 est.)
Rwanda 9 (2004 est.)
Saint Helena 1 (2004 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2 (2004 est.)
Saint Lucia 2 (2004 est.)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 2 (2004 est.)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 6 (2004 est.)
Samoa 4 (2004 est.)
San Marino none (2004 est.)
Sao Tome and Principe 2 (2004 est.)
Saudi Arabia 201 (2004 est.)
Senegal 20 (2004 est.)
Serbia and Montenegro 44 (2004 est.)
Seychelles 15 (2004 est.)
Sierra Leone 10 (2004 est.)
Singapore 10 (2004 est.)
Slovakia 34 (2004 est.)
Slovenia 14 (2004 est.)
Solomon Islands 33 (2004 est.)
Somalia 60 (2004 est.)
South Africa 728 (2004 est.)
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands none (2004 est.)
Spain 156 (2004 est.)
Spratly Islands 3 (2004 est.)
Sri Lanka 14 (2004 est.)
Sudan 75 (2004 est.)
Suriname 46 (2004 est.)
Svalbard 4 (2004 est.)
Swaziland 18 (2004 est.)
Sweden 254 (2004 est.)
Switzerland 65 (2004 est.)
Syria 92 (2004 est.)
Taiwan 40 (2004 est.)
Tajikistan 55 (2004 est.)
Tanzania 123 (2004 est.)
Thailand 109 (2004 est.)
Togo 9 (2004 est.)
Tokelau none; lagoon landings are possible by amphibious aircraft (2004 est.)
Tonga 6 (2004 est.)
Trinidad and Tobago 6 (2004 est.)
Tromelin Island 1 (2004 est.)
Tunisia 30 (2004 est.)
Turkey 119 (2004 est.)
Turkmenistan 53 (2004 est.)
Turks and Caicos Islands 8 (2004 est.)
Tuvalu 1 (2004 est.)
Uganda 29 (2004 est.)
Ukraine 659 (2004 est.)
United Arab Emirates 35 (2004 est.)
United Kingdom 471 (2004 est.)
United States 14,857 (2004 est.)
Uruguay 64 (2004 est.)
Uzbekistan 226 (2004 est.)
Vanuatu 30 (2004 est.)
Venezuela 369 (2004 est.)
Vietnam 24 (2004 est.)
Virgin Islands 2 (2004 est.)
Wake Island 1 (2004 est.)
Wallis and Futuna 2 (2004 est.)
West Bank 3 (2004 est.)
Western Sahara 11 (2004 est.)
Yemen 44 (2004 est.)
Zambia 109 (2004 est.)
Zimbabwe 404 (2004 est.)

This page was last updated on 17 May, 2005


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