Middle East
Jordan
Aqaba

King Hussein International Airport

King Hussein International Airport, Arabic: مطارالملك الحسين الدولي, also informally known as Aqaba Airport, is a minor international airport located in the vicinity of a northern suburb of Aqaba, Jordan.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: Airport in Jordan
  • Also known as: “Aqaba Airport”, “AQJ”, “Maţār al `Aqabah”, “Maţār al Ḩusayn ad Dawlī, Matar al Husayn al Dawli”, “OJAQ”, and “مطار العقبة”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tall al Khalifa and Eilot.

Village
Tell el-Kheleifeh is an archaeological site in at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba immediately northwest of the city of . Its older identification with the 10th-century port from the biblical King Solomon narrative does not stand up to newer…

Village
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is the southernmost kibbutz in . It is located in the Aravah Valley, near the border with . is less than a kilometer north of , and just over 3 kilometers north of the Red Sea.

Photo: Chris Yunker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the only city on the Red Sea. is the southernmost town in Israel, isolated from the rest of the country by the desert. It's sandwiched between Taba in Egypt and Aqaba in Jordan, and often used as an access route to those cities because of its large modern Ramon airport.

King Hussein International Airport

Latitude
29.60993° or 29° 36′ 36″ north
Longitude
35.01827° or 35° 1′ 6″ east
Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)
Operator
الأجنحة الملكية
IATA airport code
AQJ
ICAO airport code
OJAQ
United Nations Location Code
AQ ABA
Open location code
7GXQJ259+X8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 156581561
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
250397
Wiki­data ID
Q1430839
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“King Hussein International Airport” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “AQJ”
  • Afrikaans: “Koning Hussein Int. Lughawe‎”
  • Afrikaans: “Koning Hussein Internasionale Lughawe”
  • Arabic: “مطار الملك الحسين الدولي”
  • Arabic: “مطار الملك حسين الدولي”
  • Arabic: “مطار الملك حسين”
  • Arabic: “مطارالملك الحسين الدولي‎”
  • Arabic: “مطارالملك الحسين الدولي”
  • Cebuano: “King Hussein International Airport”
  • Chinese: “侯赛因国王国际机场”
  • Finnish: “Kuningas Husseinin kansainvälinen lentoasema”
  • French: “Aéroport d’Aqaba”
  • French: “aéroport international du roi Hussein”
  • French: “Aéroport International Hussein”
  • French: “Aéroport international Roi Hussein d’Aqaba”
  • French: “Aéroport international Roi-Hussein”
  • French: “AQJ”
  • French: “OJAQ”
  • German: “Aqaba Airport”
  • German: “AQJ”
  • German: “Flughafen Akaba”
  • German: “Flughafen Aqaba”
  • German: “King Hussein International Airport”
  • German: “OJAQ”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבין-לאומי המלך חוסיין”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבינלאומי המלך חוסיין”
  • Hindi: “किंग हुसैन अंतरराष्ट्रीय हवाई अड्डा”
  • Indonesian: “AQJ”
  • Indonesian: “OJAQ”
  • Japanese: “AQJ”
  • Japanese: “OJAQ”
  • Japanese: “アカバ・キング・フセイン国際空港”
  • Japanese: “アカバ空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa King Hussein”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Raja Hussein”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯤꯡ ꯍꯨꯁꯦꯟ ꯏꯟꯇꯔꯅꯦꯁ꯭ꯅꯦꯜ ꯑꯦꯌꯔꯄꯣꯔꯠ”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه بین المللی شاه حسین”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه بین‌المللی ملک حسین”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Akaba”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Internațional King Hussein”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul King Hussein”
  • Russian: “Акаба”
  • Russian: “Международный аэропорт имени короля Хусейна”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional Rey Husein”
  • Swedish: “King Hussein International Airport”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи бин‌алмилалӣ шоҳ ҳусийн”
  • Turkish: “Kral Hüseyin Uluslararası Havalimanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Акаба (аеропорт)”
  • Ukrainian: “Акаба”
  • Wu Chinese: “侯赛因国王国际机场”

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