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Country
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)

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