Bandaranaike International Airport
Bandaranaike International Airport is the main international airport in Sri Lanka. It is named after former Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike and is in the suburb of Negombo, 32.5 kilometres north of the nation's capital and commercial center, Colombo.
Photo: Dilubaba, Public domain.- Aerodrome
- …lies at an elevation of 9 metres (30 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code CMB
- …has the ICAO airport code VCBI
- …was formerly known as “Katunayake International Airport”
- …is operated by Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited
- Description: main international airport in Sri Lanka
- Address: Katunayake-Veyangoda Road, Katunayake
- Also known as“Bandaranaike Colombo International Airport”“CMB”“Colombo International Airport”“VCBI”
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Bandaranaike International Airport
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Latitude
7.17937° or 7° 10′ 46″ north
Longitude
79.88441° or 79° 53′ 4″ east
Open location code
6JVX5VHM+PQ
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bandaranaike International Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار باندارنيك الدولي”
- Armenian: “Բանդարանաիկե (օդանավակայան)”
- Armenian: “Բանդարանաիկե”
- Asturian: “Aeropuertu Internacional Bandaranaike”
- Bengali: “বন্দরনায়েকে আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দর”
- Burmese: “CMB”
- Burmese: “VCBI”
- Burmese: “ဘန်ဒါရာနာခိုက် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ လေဆိပ်”
- Burmese: “ဘန်ဒါရာနိုက် ကိုလံဘို အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ လေဆိပ်”
- Burmese: “ဘန်ဒါရာနိုက် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ လေဆိပ်”
- Catalan: “Aeroport Internacional Bandaranaike”
- Cebuano: “Bandaranayake International Air Port”
- Chinese: “班达拉奈克国际机场”
- Chinese: “班達拉納克國際機場”
- Dutch: “Bandaranaike International Airport”
- Dutch: “Bandaranaike Intl”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مطار باندارنيك الدولى”
- Estonian: “Bandaranaike rahvusvaheline lennujaam”
- Finnish: “Bandaranaiken kansainvälinen lentoasema”
- French: “aéroport de Colombo”
- French: “aéroport international Bandaranaike”
- French: “Aéroport international Bandaranaike”
- French: “CMB”
- French: “VCBI”
- German: “Bandaranaike International Airport”
- German: “Flughafen Bandaranaike International”
- German: “Flughafen Colombo”
- German: “VCBI”
- Hindi: “काटुनायके हवाई अड्डा”
- Hindi: “कोलंबो विमानक्षेत्र”
- Hindi: “भण्डारनायके अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय विमानक्षेत्र”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Internasional Bandaranaike”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Internasional Katunayake”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Internasional Kolombo”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Kolombo”
- Indonesian: “Bandara Bandaranaike”
- Indonesian: “Bandara Internasional Bandaranaike”
- Indonesian: “Bandara Internasional Katunayake”
- Indonesian: “Bandara Internasional Kolombo”
- Indonesian: “Bandara Kolombo”
- Indonesian: “CMB”
- Indonesian: “VCBI”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di Colombo-Bandaranaike”
- Italian: “Aeroporto Internazionale Bandaranaike”
- Italian: “Bandaranaike International Airport”
- Japanese: “CMB”
- Japanese: “カトゥナーヤカ国際空港”
- Japanese: “コロンボ国際空港”
- Japanese: “コロンボ空港”
- Japanese: “バンダーラナーヤカ国際空港”
- Japanese: “バンダラナイケ国際空港”
- Korean: “반다라나이케 국제공항”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Bandaranaike Colombo”
- Marathi: “बंदरनायके आंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानतळ”
- Marathi: “भंडारनायके आंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानतळ”
- Newari: “काटुनायके विमानस्थल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bandaranaike internasjonale lufthavn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bandaranaike International Airport”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “CMB”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “VCBI”
- Persian: “فرودگاه بینالمللی باندرانیکی”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Kolombo”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto Internacional Bandaranaike”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Bandaranaike”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Internațional Bandaranaike”
- Russian: “Бандаранаике”
- Russian: “Международный аэропорт имени Бандаранаике”
- Serbian: “Аеродром Коломбо”
- Sinhala: “බණ්ඩාරනායක ජාත්යන්තර ගුවන්තොටුපළ”
- Sinhala: “බණ්ඩාරනායක ජාත්යන්තර ගුවන්තොටුපොල”
- Slovenian: “Bandaranaike International Airport”
- Slovenian: “Mednarodno letališče Bandaranaike”
- Slovenian: “VCBI”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Bandaranaike”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional Bandaranaike”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Bandaranaike”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional Katunayake”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Katunayake”
- Swedish: “Bandaranaike International Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи байналмилалии Коломбо”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи биналмилалӣ бондроники”
- Tamil: “கட்டுநாயக்கா சர்வதேச விமான நிலையம்”
- Tamil: “கொழும்பு விமான நிலையம்”
- Tamil: “பண்டாரநாயக்க சர்வதேச விமான நிலையம்”
- Tamil: “பண்டாரநாயக்க பன்னாட்டு வானூர்தி நிலையம்”
- Tamil: “பண்டாரநாயக்கா சர்வதேச விமான நிலையம்”
- Tamil: “பண்டாரநாயக்கா பன்னாட்டு வானூர்தி நிலையம்”
- Thai: “ท่าอากาศยานนานาชาติพัณฑารนายกะ”
- Turkish: “Bandaranaike Uluslararası Havalimanı”
- Ukrainian: “Бандаранаїке”
- Ukrainian: “Міжнародний аеропорт імені Соломона Бандаранаїке”
- Urdu: “بندر نائیکے بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈا”
- Uzbek: “Bandaranaike xalqaro aeroporti”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay quốc tế Bandaranaike”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Bandaranaike”
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