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MLEVelana

Velana serves Malé, Maldives, and sits at 4.2°N, 73.5°E. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

IATA
MLE
the code on your bag tag
ICAO
VRMM
used by air traffic control
Routes here
3
in the catalogue
From the equator
466 km
9,541 km from the North pole

Where it sits

4.2°N, 73.5°E puts MLE in the northern hemisphere, 466 km from the equator and 9,541 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 505th most northerly, which makes it the 157th most southerly.

Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 4.2°S, 106.5°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Seymour Galapagos Ecological (GPS) in Ecuador, still 1,847 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is Gan (GAN), 545 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

Distances from MLE

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is London, at 8,539 km.

ToDistanceEstimated
MumbaiBOM1,658 km2h 34m
DohaDOH3,312 km4h 37m
LondonLHR8,539 km11h 07m

What’s on this page, and what isn’t

Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.

Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

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