The CIA World Factbook Edition 2012 Transportation
Airports In 36 editions of 36.
Airports was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 2012 edition carries it in 241 entries, in its Transportation section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2012 edition
- 241
- 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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World
1 entryWorld
- total airports - 43,794 (2012)
- top ten by passengers:
- Atlanta (ATL) - 89,331,622;
- Beijing (PEK) - 73,948,113;
- Chicago (ORD) - 66,774,738;
- London (LHR) - 65,884,143;
- Tokyo (HND) - 64,211,074;
- Los Angeles (LAX) - 59,070,127;
- Paris (CDG) - 58,167,062;
- Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) - 56,906,610;
- Frankfurt (FRA) - 53,009,221;
- Denver (DEN) - 52,209,377 (2010)
- top ten by cargo (metric tons):
- Hong Kong (HKG) - 4,165,852;
- Memphis (MEM) - 3,916,811;
- Shanghai (PVG) - 3,228,081;
- Incheon (ICN) - 2,684,499;
- Anchorage (ANC) - 2,646,695;
- Paris (CDG) - 2,399,067;
- Frankfurt (FRA) - 2,275,000;
- Dubai (DXB) - 2,270,498;
- Tokyo (NRT) - 2,167,853;
- Louisville (SDF) - 2,166,656 (2010)
Africa
57 entriesCongo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
201 (2012)
- country comparison to the world: 30
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- 1 (Ascension Island) (2012)
- country comparison to the world: 235
Antarctic Region
2 entriesFrench Southern and Antarctic Lands
4; note - one each on Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island in the Iles Eparses district (2010)
country comparison to the world: 188
Arctic Region
4 entriesAsia
23 entriesCentral America and the Caribbean
32 entriesEurope
44 entriesMiddle East
17 entriesNorth America
5 entriesOceania
25 entriesMicronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
6 (2012)
- country comparison to the world: 174
United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges
- Baker Island:
- one abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m covered with vegetation and unusable
- Howland Island:
- airstrip constructed in 1937 for scheduled refueling stop on the round-the-world flight of Amelia EARHART and Fred NOONAN;
- the aviators left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island but were never seen again;
- the airstrip is no longer serviceable
- Johnston Atoll:
- one closed and not maintained
- 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
- Midway Islands:
- 3 - one operational (2,409 m paved); no fuel for sale except emergencies
- Palmyra Atoll:
- 1 - 1,846 m unpaved runway; privately owned (2010)
South America
13 entriesSoutheast Asia
18 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2012, “Airports”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/airports/2012.