Aswan International Airport
Aswan International Airport, is a domestic airport located 16 km southwest of Aswan, Egypt. It was built in 1956 and upgraded in 1992 and 1999 by the Egyptian government.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Airport
- Description: airport
- Also known as: “ASW”, “Aswan”, “Daraw Airport”, and “HESN”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nile 1st. Cataract.
Nile 1st. Cataract
Locality
The Cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths of the Nile river, between Khartoum and Aswan, where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones jutting out of the river bed, as well as many rocky islets. Nile 1st. Cataract is situated 6 km east of Aswan International Airport.
Aswan International Airport
- Categories: international airport, airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Aswan Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Aswan International Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار أسوان الدولي”
- Arabic: “مطار أسوان”
- Catalan: “aeroport d’Assuan”
- Catalan: “Aeroport d’Assuan”
- Catalan: “Aeroport d’Aswan”
- Cebuano: “Aswan International Airport”
- Chinese: “阿斯旺国际机场”
- Chinese: “阿斯旺國際機場”
- Dutch: “Luchthaven Aswan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مطار اسوان الدولى”
- French: “aéroport international d’Assouan”
- French: “Aéroport international d’Assouan”
- French: “ASW”
- French: “Aswan”
- French: “HESN”
- German: “ASW”
- German: “Aswan International Airport”
- German: “Flughafen Assuan”
- German: “Flughafen Aswan International”
- German: “HESN”
- Hungarian: “Asszuáni nemzetközi repülőtér”
- Hungarian: “ASW”
- Hungarian: “HESN”
- Indonesian: “ASW”
- Indonesian: “Bandar udara daraw”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Daraw”
- Indonesian: “Bandara Daraw”
- Indonesian: “HESN”
- Italian: “Aeroporto internazionale di Assuan”
- Japanese: “アスワン国際空港”
- Japanese: “アスワン空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Aswan”
- Persian: “فرودگاه بینالمللی اسوان”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Asuan”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto Internacional de Assuão”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Aswan”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Internațional Aswan”
- Russian: “Асуан (аэропорт)”
- Russian: “Асуан”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Daraw”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Aswan”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Daraw”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Asuan”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Asuán”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Aswan”
- Spanish: “HESN”
- Swedish: “Aswan International Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи байналмиллалии Асван”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи биналмилалӣ осуон”
- Ukrainian: “Асуан”
- Ukrainian: “Міжнародний аеропорт Асуан”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay quốc tế Aswan”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Aswan”
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