Tejgaon Airport

BAF Base Bashar — also known as Tejgaon Airport — is a Bangladesh Air Force military base in , Bangladesh. Bangladesh Army also uses this military base.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Bangladesh
  • Also known as: “VGTJ”
  • Address: Tejgaon, Dhaka, 1215

Places of Interest

Highlights include Agargaon and Sher-E-Bangla Nagar Government Boys High School.

Metro station
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is an elevated metro station of the Dhaka Metro's MRT Line 6. It is located in , and was opened on 29 December 2022.

School
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Sher-E-Bangla Nagar Government Boys' High School is a public secondary and higher secondary school located in Agargaon, , Bangladesh. The school was established in 1969 as "Central Government Boys' High School".

Museum
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The in , was founded on April 26, 1965, by the Pakistani government and became a part of Bangladesh's Ministry of Science and Technology following the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Nakhalpara and Mohakhali.

Quarter
is name of a place at in city. Its eastern part is on Nakhalpara. Thousands of people live here. People of all spheres live here.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood of city, the capital of . is one of the busiest places in city. is bounded by in the north, Tejgoan area in the south, Gulshan and Niketan is in the east and DOHS in the west.

Suburb
or Kalyanpur is a neighbourhood in , . It is part of the Dhaka North City Corporation. This place is popular for inter-district bus counters, with many bus stands and ticket counters located here.

Tejgaon Airport

Latitude
23.77887° or 23° 46′ 44″ north
Longitude
90.38407° or 90° 23′ 3″ east
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Operator
বাংলাদেশ বিমান বাহিনী
ICAO airport code
VGTJ
Open location code
7MMGQ9HM+GJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 622567201
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6301087
Wiki­data ID
Q3350608
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Satellite Map

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

From Bengali to Tajik—“Tejgaon Airport” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “তেজগাঁও বিমানবন্দর”
  • Catalan: “aeroport de Tejgaon”
  • Cebuano: “Tejgaon Airport”
  • German: “Flughafen Tejgaon”
  • Hindi: “तेजगांव हवाई अड्डा”
  • Indonesian: “VGTJ”
  • Japanese: “テジガオン空港”
  • Japanese: “テズガオン空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Tejgaon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tejgaon Airport”
  • Norwegian: “Tejgaon Airport”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه تیگائون”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Tejgaon”
  • Swedish: “Tejgaon Airport”
  • Swedish: “Tejgaon flygplats”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи тигоеҳвн”

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