Swakopmund Airport

Swakopmund Airport is a non-towered airport serving , a city in the of . There are no runway lights.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport
  • Also known as: “FYSM”, “Swakopmund”, and “SWP”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Swakopmund railway station and Martin Luther.

Railway station
Photo: Octavian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station serving the town of in . It is part of the TransNamib railway network. Its IATA code is ZSZ.

Memorial
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is an 8 NHP Compound J & H McLaren steam-driven traction engine Works No 527 built in November 1895 in , , UK and abandoned in the desert of Skeleton Coast outside of the town of in , ca.

Golf course
Photo: Hp.Baumeler, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mondesa and Kramersdorf.

Suburb
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is a suburb of in central western . The residential area is located in the northeast of the town. In the northwest, it borders on the neighbourhood Tamariskia and in the south on the industrial area.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

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, known as Swakop, is in the region of . It is the country's biggest coastal town and a resort for Namibians on holiday. The city's German origins are quite pronounced in beautiful old German colonial buildings throughout the city, making an even starker contrast for this town sitting at the edge of the Namib Desert.

Swakopmund Airport

Latitude
-22.6596° or 22° 39′ 35″ south
Longitude
14.56972° or 14° 34′ 11″ east
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
IATA airport code
SWP
ICAO airport code
FYSM
Open location code
5F9P8HR9+5V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 88275255
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
3352845
Wiki­data ID
Q661852
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Satellite Map

Discover Swakopmund Airport from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Swakopmund Airport” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Swakopmund-lughawe”
  • Fulah: “Swakopmund Airport”
  • German: “Flugplatz Swakopmund”
  • Indonesian: “FYSM”
  • Indonesian: “SWP”
  • Japanese: “スワコプムント空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Swakopmund”
  • Persian: “FYSM”
  • Persian: “SWP”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه سواکوپاند”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Swakopmund”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Swakopmund”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи суокупонд”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay Swakopmund”

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