The CIA World Factbook Edition 1998 Transportation
Airports In 36 editions of 36.
Airports was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 1998 edition carries it in 253 entries, in its Transportation section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 1998 edition
- 253
- the first edition with it
- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Airports” (1990 to 2025), and under 2 other headings in a few entries, mostly where the source split this field into parts.
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Africa
61 entriesAntarctic Region
3 entriesAntarctica
- 18 (1997 est.);
- 39 landing facilities at different locations operated by 16 national governments party to the Treaty;
- two additional air facilities operated by commercial (nongovernmental) tourist organizations;
- helicopter pads at 33 of these locations;
- runways at 13 locations are gravel, sea ice, glacier ice, or compacted snow surface suitable for wheeled fixed-wing aircraft;
- no paved runways;
- 14 locations have snow-surface skiways limited to use by ski-equipped planes-8 runways/skiways greater than 3,000 m, 12 runways/skiways 1,000 to 3,000 m, 2 runways/skiways less than 1,000 m, and 5 of unspecified or variable length;
- airports generally subject to severe restrictions and limitations resulting from extreme seasonal and geographic conditions;
- airports do not meet ICAO standards;
- advance approval from the respective governmental or nongovernmental operating organization required for landing (1997 est.)
Arctic Region
4 entriesAsia
23 entriesCentral America and the Caribbean
31 entriesVirgin Islands
2
note: international airports on Saint Thomas and Saint Croix; there is an airfield on St. John (1997 est.)
Europe
46 entriesMiddle East
17 entriesGaza Strip
2 (1997 est.)
note: includes new international airport that was scheduled to open in June 1997, but has been delayed due to political and security disagreements between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators
North America
5 entriesOceania
32 entriesHowland 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
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
South America
14 entriesSoutheast Asia
17 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1998, “Airports”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/airports/1998.