- IATA
- ZNZ
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- HTZA
- used by air traffic control
- Passengers
- 934,000
- in 2014
- Routes here
- 1
- in the catalogue
History & name
Abeid Amani Karume International Airport lies 7 km from Zanzibar in Tanzania. It has one runway of 3,022 m at an elevation of 54 feet and handled 934,000 passengers in 2014.
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At a glance
- Full name
- Abeid Amani Karume International Airport
- Serves
- Zanzibar, Tanzania
- City centre
- 7 km from Zanzibar
- Passengers
- 934,000 in 2014
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,022 m
- Elevation
- 54 ft (16 m)
Where it sits
6.2°S, 39.2°E puts ZNZ in the southern hemisphere, 692 km from the equator and 9,316 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 541st most northerly, which makes it the 121st most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 6.2°N, 140.8°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Hilo (ITO) in United States, still 2,152 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Julius Nyerere (DAR), 72 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from ZNZ
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi | NBO | 602 km | 1h 15m |
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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