Timbuktu Airport

Timbuktu Airport is an airport in , that opened on April 15, 1961.
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  • Type: Airport
  • Description: airport
  • Also known as: “GATB”, “TOM”, and “Tombouctou Airport”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Timbuktu.

Photo: upyernoz, CC BY 3.0.
is a Tuareg city on the Niger River in the country of . Its long history as a trading outpost that linked black Africa below the Sahara Desert with Berber and Islamic traders throughout north Africa, and thereby indirectly with traders from Europe, has given it a fabled status.

Timbuktu Airport

Latitude
16.73046° or 16° 43′ 50″ north
Longitude
-3.00758° or 3° 0′ 27″ west
Elevation
263 metres (863 feet)
IATA airport code
TOM
ICAO airport code
GATB
Open location code
7C8RPXJR+5X
Geo­Names ID
6297182
Wiki­data ID
Q764032
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Timbuktu Airport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مطار تمبكتو”
  • Cebuano: “Timbuktu Airport”
  • Chinese: “廷巴克圖機場”
  • Chinese: “通布圖機場”
  • Dutch: “Luchthaven van Timboektoe”
  • French: “Aéroport de Tombouctou”
  • French: “aéroport international de Tombouctou”
  • French: “Aéroport international de Tombouctou”
  • German: “Flughafen Timbuktu”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Timbuktu”
  • Indonesian: “GATB”
  • Indonesian: “TOM”
  • Italian: “aeroporto di Timbuctù”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Timbuctù”
  • Japanese: “トンブクトゥ空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Tombouctou”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه تمبوکتو”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Timbuktu”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Timbuktu”
  • Russian: “Тимбукту (аэропорт)”
  • Russian: “Тимбукту”
  • Swedish: “Timbuktu Airport”
  • Swedish: “Timbuktu flygplats”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи тимбукту”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay Timbuktu”

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