West Africa
Sierra Leone
Eastern Province

Yengema Airport

Yengema Airport is a regional airport located in , , . It is the only airport that serves Kono District. It is one of the busiest airports in the country, due to the present of large diamond mining companies in Kono District.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Sierra Leone
  • Also known as: “GFYE”, “WYE”, and “Yengema”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yengema and Tongoma.

Town
Photo: Brian Harrington Spier, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in the of in the of , lying approximately 6 miles west of , and about 142 miles east of .

Village
Tongo, also known as , is a diamond mining town and the second largest city in , located in the of .

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Town is the capital and largest city of the in the of . Its population is 128,030 based on the 2015 census.

Yengema Airport

Latitude
8.61741° or 8° 37′ 3″ north
Longitude
-11.05015° or 11° 3′ 1″ west
Elevation
380 metres (1,247 feet)
Operator
Sierra Leonean Airports Authority
IATA airport code
WYE
ICAO airport code
GFYE
United Nations Location Code
SL WYE
Open location code
6CWCJW8X+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1009846504
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
7668280
Wiki­data ID
Q8052242
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Tajik—“Yengema Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Yengema Airport”
  • German: “Flughafen Yengema”
  • German: “Flugplatz Yengema”
  • Indonesian: “GFYE”
  • Indonesian: “WYE”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Yengema”
  • Japanese: “イェンゲマ空港”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Yengema”
  • Persian: “GFYE”
  • Persian: “WYE”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه اینگما”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Yengema”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Yengema”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи оингмо”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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