Qalandia Airport

Jerusalem International Airport was a regional airport located in the city of . When it was opened in 1925, it was the first airport in the British Mandate for Palestine.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Atarot Airport”, “Jerusalem Airport”, “Jerusalem International Airport”, “JRS”, “Kalandia Airport”, “LLJR”, and “OJJR”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium and Tel A-Nasbe.

Stadium
is an association football stadium on Dahiat al'Barid Street of in , . It is one of the home stadiums of the Palestine national football team.

Archaeological site
Photo: דניאל צבי, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tell en-Nasbeh, possibly the biblical city of Mizpah, is a 3.2 hectare tell located on a low plateau 12 kilometers northwest of in the .

Prison
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0.
Ofer Prison, formerly officially known as Incarceration Facility 385, is an Israeli military incarceration facility in the Israeli-occupied , between and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Qalandiya Refugee Camp and Kafr ’Aqab.

Town
Photo: L-BBE, CC BY 3.0.
Qalandia Camp is a Palestinian refugee camp established in 1949 by the Red Cross on land leased from . It covers 353 dunums as of 2006 and had a population of 8,336 in 2017.

Suburb
Photo: עדירל, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kafr 'Aqab is the northernmost Palestinian Arab neighborhood in . It is part of the area annexed and included in municipal Jerusalem following its occupation by Israel in 1967.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Atarot was a moshav in Mandatory Palestine, north of along the highway to Ramallah. It was named after the biblical Atarot mentioned in Joshua 16:2, which is believed to have been situated nearby.

Qalandia Airport

Latitude
31.86512° or 31° 51′ 54″ north
Longitude
35.21924° or 35° 13′ 9″ east
Elevation
751 metres (2,464 feet)
Operator
Israel Defense Forces
Abbreviation
“OJJR”
IATA airport code
JRS
ICAO airport code
LLJR
Open location code
8G3QV689+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26608859
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­airfield
Geo­Names ID
283468
Wiki­data ID
Q573379
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Qalandia Airport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مطار القدس الدولي”
  • Arabic: “مطار قلنديا”
  • Banjar: “Bandar Udara Atarot”
  • Belarusian: “Атарот”
  • Bulgarian: “Международно летище Атарот”
  • Catalan: “Aeroport de Jerusalem”
  • Catalan: “Aeroport de Kalandia”
  • Chinese: “耶路撒冷国际机场”
  • Chinese: “耶路撒冷國際機場”
  • Chinese: “阿塔洛特机场”
  • Chinese: “阿塔洛特機場”
  • Chinese: “阿塔羅特机场”
  • Chinese: “阿塔羅特機場”
  • Czech: “Letiště Atarot”
  • Dutch: “Atarot Airport”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مطار القدس الدولى”
  • Esperanto: “Flughaveno Jerusalemo”
  • French: “aéroport d’Atarot”
  • French: “aéroport international de Jérusalem”
  • French: “Aéroport international de Jérusalem”
  • German: “Flughafen Atarot”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה עטרות”
  • Hebrew: “שדה התעופה עטרות”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Atarot”
  • Indonesian: “JRS”
  • Indonesian: “LLJR”
  • Indonesian: “OJJR”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Gerusalemme”
  • Japanese: “アタロット空港”
  • Japanese: “エルサレム空港”
  • Korean: “예루살렘 국제공항”
  • Ladino: “Ayroporto de Atarot”
  • Macedonian: “Ерусалим”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Baitulmaqdis”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Jerusalem”
  • Persian: “JRS”
  • Persian: “LLJR, OJJR”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه اتاروت”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Atarot”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Jerusalém”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Atarot”
  • Russian: “Атарот (аэропорт)”
  • Russian: “Атарот”
  • Serbian: “Аеродром Јерусалим”
  • Serbian: “Међународни аеродром Јерусалим”
  • Slovak: “Letisko Jeruzalem”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Jerusalen”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Jerusalén”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи оторут”
  • Turkish: “Kudüs Uluslararası Havalimanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Атарот”
  • Ukrainian: “Єрусалим (аеропорт)”
  • Ukrainian: “Єрусалим”
  • Urdu: “القدس بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈا”
  • Yiddish: “ירושלים פליפעלד”
  • Yiddish: “שדה התעופה ירושלים”

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