Khorog Airport (russian: Аэропорт «Хорог»; tg, Фурудгоҳи Хоруғ), is an
airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...
serving
Khorugh
Khorugh ( tg, Хоруғ, ; russian: Хорог, translit=Khorog; ) is the capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) in Tajikistan. It is also the capital of the Shughnon District of Gorno-Badakhshan. It has a population of 30,50 ...
(also spelled Khorog), a city in the
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region,, abbr. / is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, in the Pamir Mountains. It makes up nearly forty-five percent of the country's land area, but only two perce ...
in
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
.
Facilities and aircraft
The airport resides at an
elevation
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of above
mean sea level
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. It has one
runway
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...
designated 16/34 with an
asphalt
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surface measuring .
Aga Khan Foundation has plans to build a new runway at the airport.
[http://dlca.logcluster.org/display/public/DLCA/2.2.5+Tajikistan+Khorog+Airport, 2014]
Airlines and destinations
References
External links
Airport GuideAviation Safety Network
Airports in Tajikistan
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
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