Which landlocked country in South Asia and one of the region's least populous nations has only four airports?
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Yongphulla Airport Yongphulla Airport (IATA: YON, ICAO: VQTY) (also known as Yonphula Airport) is a domestic airport in Bhutan, one of only four airports in the country. It is located near the town of Trashigang in Trashigang District. As of January 2015, the airport remains closed due to ongoing runway repair.
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Bhutan Bhutan ( ; འབྲུག་ཡུལ་ "druk yul "), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ "druk gyal khap "), is a landlocked country in South Asia. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by Tibet Autonomous Region in the north, India in the south, the Sikkim state of India and the Chumbi Valley of Tibet in the west, and Arunachal Pradesh state of India in the east. Bhutan is geopolitically in South Asia and is the region's second least populous nation after the Maldives. Thimphu is its capital and largest city, while Phuntsholing is its financial center.
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Brunei International Airport Brunei International Airport (Malay: "Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Brunei"; Jawi: لاڤڠن تربڠ انتارابڠسا بروني ) (IATA: BWN, ICAO: WBSB) is the primary airport in the nation of Brunei. It serves as the home base for Royal Brunei Airlines. The Royal Brunei Air Force is also based at the Rimba Air Base, which is located within the airport's area. The airport serves destinations across Asia and Oceania as well as flights to London Heathrow (via Dubai).
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Emirates destinations As of mid-July 2017, Emirates operates to 141 destinations in 75 countries across six continents from its hub in Dubai. It has a particularly strong presence in the South and Southeast Asian region, which together connect Dubai with more international destinations in the region than any other Middle Eastern airline. The countries with the largest number of airports served by Emirates are the United States with 12, India with 9, Pakistan, China and the United Kingdom with 6, and Australia with 5.
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Azerbaijan Azerbaijan ( ; Azerbaijani: "Azərbaycan" , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: "Azərbaycan Respublikası" )), is a country in the South Caucasus region, situated at the crossroads of Southwest Asia and Southeastern Europe. It is bound by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west and Iran to the south. The exclave of Nakhchivan is bound by Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, while having an 11 km border with Turkey in the north west.
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Aurangabad Airport Aurangabad Airport (IATA: IXU, ICAO: VAAU) is a public airport located in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. It is located about 5.5 km east of the city center, and 11 km from Aurangabad Railway Station, along the Aurangabad-Nagpur State Highway. The airport is owned and operated by the Airports Authority of India, with one passenger terminal with 190,000 square-feet floor area. The airport ordinarily only has domestic destinations, however its operators seasonally run Haj services using makeshift immigration and customs counters.
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Airports Authority of India The Airports Authority of India or AAI under the Ministry of Civil Aviation is responsible for creating, upgrading, maintaining and managing civil aviation infrastructure in India. It provides Air traffic management (ATM) services over Indian airspace and adjoining oceanic areas. It also manages a total of 125 Airports, including 18 International Airports, 7 Customs Airports, 78 Domestic Airports and 26 Civil enclaves at Military Airfields. AAI also has ground installations at all airports and 25 other locations to ensure safety of aircraft operations. AAI covers all major air-routes over Indian landmass via 29 Radar installations at 11 locations along with 700VOR/DVOR installations co-located with Distance Measuring Equipment (DME). 52 runways are provided with Instrument landing system (ILS) installations with Night Landing Facilities at most of these airports and Automatic Message Switching System at 15 Airports.
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Indonesia Indonesia ( or ; Indonesian: ), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: "Republik Indonesia" ), is a unitary sovereign state and transcontinental country located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania. Situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans, it is the world's largest island country, with more than seventeen thousand islands. At 1,904,569 km2 , Indonesia is the world's 14th-largest country in terms of land area and world's 7th-largest country in terms of combined sea and land area. It has an estimated population of over floor( /1e6) million people and is the world's fourth most populous country, the most populous Austronesian nation, as well as the most populous Muslim-majority country. The world's most populous island, Java, contains more than half of the country's population.
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Transport in Sri Lanka Transport in Sri Lanka is based mainly on the road network which is centred on Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo. There is also a railway network, but only handles a small fraction of the country's transport needs. There are navigable waterways, harbours and two international airports located in Katunayake, 22 miles north of Colombo and in Hambantota.
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Ratmalana Airport Ratmalana Airport (IATA: RML, ICAO: VCCC) , is the first International Airport in Sri Lanka. Colombo Airport Ratmalana was the only international airport in Sri Lanka until the inauguration of Bandaranaike International Airport, Katunayake in 1967. This is a Civil Airport which is operating as the domestic aviation hub and the aviation training hub in Sri Lanka. There are 11 domestic airlines based at Ratmalana with hangar facilities and operating scheduled and charter passenger operations. The aerodrome is also used to train all aviation students in Sri Lanka since 1960s.
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Kanchipuram Kānchipuram (Tamil:காஞ்சிபுரம்) otherwise known as Kānchi ("kāñcipuram "; ] ) is a city/town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, 72 km from Chennaithe capital of Tamil Nadu. The towns covers an area of 11.605 sqkm and had a population of 164,265 in 2001. It is the administrative headquarters of Kanchipuram District. Kanchipuram is well-connected by road and rail. Chennai International Airport is the nearest domestic and international airport to the town, which is located at Tirusulam in Kanchipuram district.
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Pakyong Airport Pakyong Airport is an airport under construction near Gangtok, the state capital of Sikkim, India. The airport, spread over 400 ha , is located at Pakyong village about 35km (21.75 mi) south of Gangtok. It is the first greenfield airport to be constructed in the Northeastern Region of India and the only airport in the state of Sikkim. Frequent protests by locals and landslides upslope of the runway have resulted in suspension of work twice, escalating the cost of the project from Rs. 309 crore (3.09 billion) to Rs. 605 crore (6.05 billion) (US$47 million to US$91 million). Airport construction including a passenger terminal is now expected to be functional by March 2017. Presently, the nearest airports to Sikkim are Bagdogra, located 124 km away in the neighbouring state of West Bengal, and Paro Airport in Bhutan.
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Mihin Lanka Mihin Lanka was a low-fare leisure airline based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was owned by the Sri Lankan government. The airline operated scheduled flights from its hub at Bandaranaike International Airport to a number of cities in the Indian subcontinent, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Africa. It code-shared with its partner SriLankan Airlines on several routes, as part of a consolidation exercise between the two airlines.
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List of states in India by past population India is a union of twenty-nine states and seven union territories. As of 2011, with an estimated population of 1.210 billion, India is the world's second most populated country after the People's Republic of China. India occupies 2.4 percent of the world's land surface area but is home to 17.5 percent of the world's population. The Indo-Gangetic plains are among the most densely populated areas of the world. The eastern and western coastal regions of Deccan traps are also densely populated regions of India. The Thar desert in western Rajasthan is one of the most densely populated deserts in the world. The northern and north-eastern states along the Himalayas contain cold arid deserts with fertile valleys. These states have less population density due to indomitable physical barriers.
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Cha-ian Airport Cha-ian Airport (Thai: สนามบินชะเอียน ) is a Thai military airport operated by the Royal Thai 4th Army in the Pak Phun sub-district of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand. The Thai Airways Company formerly used Cha Eian Airport for passenger flights between Nakhon Si Thammarat-Surat Thani-Bangkok. Today, the airport is used by the military to transport the royal family.
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List of airports in Kerala state Kerala state is having 3 operational International airports. The state will get another international airport in the year 2017 to become the only Indian state having 4 international airports along with Tamil nadu.
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UDAN UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) is a regional airport development and ""Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)"" of the Government of India, with the objective of "Let the common citizen of the country fly", aimed at making air travel affordable and widespread, enabling inclusive job growth and infrastructure development of all regions and states of India. It has two components, the development and operationalisation of 100 regional airports with regular scheduled flights by 2018-2019, for which initial funding of INR4500 crore for the redevelopment of 50 airports was approved in May 2017, and the new regional flight routes component, which will cap and subsidise the airfares, to connect hundreds of new subsidised commercially viable routes among more than 100 underserved and unserved airports in smaller towns with each other and with well served airports in bigger well connected cities as well.
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Dimapur Dimapur is the largest city in Nagaland, India. Contrary to popular belief, the city's formation in Nagaland is separate from that of Assam. In the Middle Ages, it was the capital of the Dimasa Kachari rulers. In the heart of the town there is an old relic of the Dimasa Kachari Kingdom which speaks about the once prosperous era. It is located at and is bounded by Kohima district on the south and east, Karbi Anglong district of Assam on the west, the Karbi Anglong and stretch of Golaghat District of Assam, in the west and the north. Dimapur, derived from a Kachari word; 'Di" meaning "water", "ma" meaning "large" & "pur" (sanskritised word) meaning "city", translating to "Big-river-city", associated with the meaning of "Kachari" which is "people of the river valley" and after the river which flows through it (Dhansari). It is also the gateway to Nagaland and its only railhead. The city also has the only functional airport in the state.
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O. R. Tambo International Airport O. R. Tambo International Airport (IATA: JNB, ICAO: FAOR) (ORTIA) is a major international airport in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, South Africa, near the city of Johannesburg and, to a lesser extent, the executive capital Pretoria. It serves as the primary airport for domestic and international travel to/from South Africa and is Africa's busiest airport with a capacity to handle up to 28 million passengers annually with non-stop flights to all continents except Antarctica. The airport is the hub of South Africa's largest international and domestic carrier, South African Airways (SAA), and a number of smaller local airlines. The airport handled a total of over 20 million passengers in 2016.
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West Bengal West Bengal ( ) is an Indian state located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal. It is India's fourth most populous state, with over 91million inhabitants (as of 2011). It has an area of 88752 km2 . A part of the ethno-linguistic Bengal region, it is bordered by Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north; it shares borders with five Indian states: Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata (Calcutta), the seventh-largest city in India. As for geography, West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, and the coastal Sundarbans. The main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.
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Mandi region Mandi is a southern region of the Chitwan district in Nepal which includes four administrative regions called VDC (Village Development Committee). This region is between the Bihar state of India and the Royal Chitwan National Park in Nepal. Mandi is the location of a famous temple, to which thousands of people from around the region flock for religious worship. The region came to international attention when a civilian bus was blown up in an ambush by Maoist cadres, killing about forty unarmed passengers. The attack was widely condemned by many figures, including UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and this led to a statement of sorrow and apology from the chairman Prachanda of the assailants themselves. The land in Mandi is suitable for growing many types of crops, which are the major source of income for its residents.
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Geography of Botswana Botswana is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa, north of South Africa. Botswana occupies an area of 581730 km2 , of which 566730 km2 are land. Botswana has land boundaries of combined length 4347.15 km , of which the constituent boundaries are shared with Namibia, for 1544 km ; South Africa 1969 km ; Zimbabwe, 834 km and Zambia, 0.15 km . Much of the population of Botswana is concentrated in the eastern part of the country.