- IATA
- DKR
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- GOOY
- used by air traffic control
- Passengers
- 2M
- in 2017
- Routes here
- 1
- in the catalogue
History & name
Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport is named after Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), president of Senegal, poet and cultural theorist, and also after Dakar. It lies 7 km from Dakar, has one runway of 3,490 m, and handled 2 million passengers in 2017.
Named afterLéopold Sédar Senghor — first president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport
- Serves
- Dakar, Senegal
- City centre
- 7 km from Dakar
- Passengers
- 2 million in 2017
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,490 m
- Elevation
- 85 ft (26 m)
- Website
- aeroportdakar.com ↗
Where it sits
14.7°N, 17.5°W puts DKR in the northern hemisphere, 1,639 km from the equator and 8,368 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 435th most northerly, which makes it the 227th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 14.7°S, 162.5°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Honiara (HIR) in Solomon Islands, still 649 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Modibo Keita (BKO), 1,058 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from DKR
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris | CDG | 4,225 km | 5h 45m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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