Kant
Kant Air Base is a military air base in Ysyk-Ata District of Chüy Region in Kyrgyzstan. It is located just south of Kant, around 20 km east of Bishkek and is home to the Russian Aerospace Forces' 999th Air Base.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: Russian overseas air force base
- Also known as: “999 авиабаза”, “Kant Air Base”, “Kant Airfield - 999th airbase of the Russian Federation”, “Kant Airport”, “UAFW”, and “Кант авиабазасы – Россия Федерациясынын 999-абазасы”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kant and Luxemburg.
Kant
Town
Kant is a town in the Chüy Valley of northern Kyrgyzstan, some 20 kilometres east of Bishkek. It is the administrative center of the Ysyk-Ata District.
Luxemburg
Village
Lyuksemburg is a village in Chüy Region of Kyrgyzstan. It is part of the Ysyk-Ata District. Its population was 5,528 in 2021. It lies adjacent to the west of the city Kant, and 17 km east of Bishkek.
Dmitriyevka
Village
Dmitriyevka is a village in the Ysyk-Ata District of Chüy Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 3,602 in 2021.
Kant
- Categories: airbase, military installation, and transportation
- Location: Bishkek, Bishkek and the Northwest, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
42.8562° or 42° 51′ 22″ north
Longitude
74.84664° or 74° 50′ 48″ east
Elevation
769 metres (2,523 feet)
ICAO airport code
UAFW
Open location code
8JJPVR4W+FM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=military
OpenStreetMap feature
military=airfield
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kant” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منشأة جوية في قيرغيزستان”
- Cebuano: “Kant Air Base”
- Chinese: “康德空军基地”
- Chinese: “第999空军基地”
- Chinese: “第999空軍基地”
- Dutch: “Vliegbasis Kant”
- Estonian: “Kanti lennuväebaas”
- Finnish: “Kantin lentotukikohta - Venäjän federaation 999. lentotukikohta”
- Hebrew: “בסיס קאנט”
- Hungarian: “Kant légibázis”
- Indonesian: “UAFW”
- Italian: “Base aerea di Kant”
- Japanese: “カント基地”
- Japanese: “カント空軍基地”
- Japanese: “カント飛行場 - ロシア連邦第999航空基地”
- Kirghiz: “Кант авиабазасы”
- Lithuanian: “Kanto oro bazė (999-oji Rusijos Federacijos oro bazė)”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Kant”
- Persian: “پایگاه هوایی قانت”
- Persian: “پایگاه هوایی کانت”
- Polish: “Baza lotnicza „Kant””
- Polish: “Lotnisko Kant - 999. baza lotnicza Federacji Rosyjskiej.”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Kant”
- Portuguese: “Base Aérea de Kant”
- Portuguese: “UAFW”
- Russian: “Авиабаза Кант”
- Russian: “Аэродром Кант - 999 авиабаза Российской Федерации”
- Russian: “Кант”
- Swedish: “Kant Air Base”
- Tajik: “Пойгоҳи ҳавоӣ конт”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи ҳавоии Қанд”
- Ukrainian: “Аеродром Кант - 999 авіабаза Російської Федерації”
- Ukrainian: “Кант”
- “Kant aviabazası”
- “Кант авиабазасы”
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