Blaise Diagne International Airport
Blaise Diagne International Airport, is an international airport near the town of Diass in Thiès Region, Senegal, 43 km east of downtown Dakar. It serves as the main airport for Dakar, replacing Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, which had become too small.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: commercial airport near Dakar, Senegal
- Also known as: “Dakar Airport”, “Dakar Diagne Airport”, “DSS”, and “GOBD”
Photo: Barka94, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ndiass.
Ndiass
Village
Ndiass is a village and rural community in the M'bour Department in the Thiès Region of Senegal. It is located 40 kilometres southeast of Dakar. According to PEPAM, Ndiass has a population of 4794. Blaise Diagne International Airport, Senegal's primary airport, is located nearby.
Blaise Diagne International Airport
- Categories: international airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Thiès region, Senegal, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
14.67141° or 14° 40′ 17″ northLongitude
-17.07365° or 17° 4′ 25″ westElevation
89 metres (292 feet)IATA airport code
DSSICAO airport code
GOBDUnited Nations Location Code
SN DSSOpen location code
7C64MWCG+HGOpenStreetMap ID
way 321817547OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
7732976Wikidata ID
Q597308
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Blaise Diagne International Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار بليز دياغني الدولي”
- Catalan: “Aeroport Blaise Diagne”
- Catalan: “Aeroport de Dakar”
- Catalan: “Aeroport internacional Blaise Diagne”
- Catalan: “DSS”
- Cebuano: “Blaise Diagne International Airport”
- Chinese: “布萊斯·狄亞尼國際機場”
- Chinese: “布萊斯·迪亞涅國際機場”
- Chinese: “布萊斯‧迪亞涅國際”
- Chinese: “布賴斯·迪亞尼國際機場”
- Chinese: “達喀爾”
- Dutch: “Internationale luchthaven Blaise Diagne”
- Estonian: “Blaise Diagne rahvusvaheline lennujaam”
- French: “Aeroport international Blaise Diagne”
- French: “aéroport international Blaise-Diagne”
- French: “Aéroport international Blaise-Diagne”
- French: “Aéroport International Blaise-Diagne”
- French: “DSS”
- French: “GOBD”
- German: “Aéroport international Blaise Diagne”
- German: “DSS”
- German: “Flughafen Dakar-Blaise Diagne”
- German: “GOBD”
- Hausa: “Filin jirgin saman Blaise-Diagne”
- Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבינלאומי בלייז דיאנייה”
- Hungarian: “Blaise Diagne nemzetközi repülőtér”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di Dakar-Blaise Diagne”
- Japanese: “ダカール空港”
- Japanese: “ブレーズ・ジャーニュ国際空港”
- Korean: “블레즈 디아뉴 국제공항”
- Korean: “블레즈-디아뉴 국제공항”
- Persian: “فرودگاه بینالمللی بلز دیا”
- Persian: “فرودگاه بینالمللی بلز دیان”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Dakar-Diass”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto Internacional Blaise Diagne”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Blaise Diagne”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Internațional Blaise Diagne”
- Russian: “Международный аэропорт имени Блеза Дианя”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional Blaise Diagne”
- Swedish: “Dakar-Blaise Diagnes flygplats”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Байналмиллалии Блейз Диан”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи биналмилалӣ блз дион”
- Turkish: “Blaise Diagne Uluslararası Havalimanı”
- Ukrainian: “Дакар-Діас (аеропорт)”
- Ukrainian: “Дакар-Діас”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Blaise Diagne”
- “DSS”
- “GOBD”
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