Airports (2005)

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Informations about Airports in 2005 year

	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	3,130 (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.)
	Isle of Man	1 (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	314 (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.)
	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	656 (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.)
	World	49,973 (2004)
	Yemen	44 (2004 est.)
	Zambia	109 (2004 est.)
	Zimbabwe	404 (2004 est.)