Sittwe Airport
Sittwe Airport is an airport in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar. In Burmese it is known as စစ်တွေ လေဆိပ်. It started as Royal Air Force station RAF Akyab, a military airfield in World War II.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Airport
- Description: airport in Myanmar
- Also known as: “AKY” and “VYSW”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rakhine State Cultural Museum.
Rakhine State Cultural Museum
Museum
The Rakhine State Cultural Museum is a museum in Myanmar that serves as a repository for the cultural heritage of the Rakhine people, including their history, cultural traditions, and costumes. Rakhine State Cultural Museum is situated 2 miles east of Sittwe Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sittwe.
Sittwe
Photo: Mutt Lunker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sittwe or Akyab is a city and district in Rakhine State, Western Myanmar. It is off limits due to the Myanmar Civil War.
Sittwe Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Sittwe Township, Sittwe District, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Sittwe Airport” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Акяб”
- Burmese: “စစ်တွေ လေဆိပ်”
- Cebuano: “Akyab”
- Chinese: “实兑机场”
- Chinese: “實兌機場”
- Indonesian: “AKY”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Sittwe”
- Indonesian: “VYSW”
- Japanese: “シットウェ空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Sittwe”
- Persian: “فرودگاه سیتو”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Sittwe”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Sittwe”
- Shan: “တႃႈႁိူဝ်းမိၼ် ၸိတ်ႉတူၺ်ႇ”
- Tai Nüa: “ᥖᥣ ᥞᥫᥰ ᥛᥥᥢ ᥓᥤᥖ ᥖᥨᥭᥱ”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи ситу”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay Sittwe”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Sittwe”
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