ABV

Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport

ICAO DNAA9.0068°N 7.2632°E342 m / 1,123 ftLarge airport
On the map

Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (IATA: ABV, ICAO: DNAA) is a large airport in Abuja, Abuja Capital Territory, Nigeria. It has one runway, 3,609 m (11,842 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 5.0 million passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Terminal BuildingGeneral Aviation TerminalNew International TerminalVIP Terminal
04/22035° / 215° · LIT
LENGTH3,609 m11,842 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
4.2M
3.5M
4.3M
4.2M
3.6M
5.6M
3.9M
5.3M
5.0M
111215161719202122

Routes

14 destinations · 13 countries
Most destinationsAir Peace 4Asky Airlines 1Uganda Airlines 1Air Algérie 1Royal Air Maroc 1EgyptAir 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ABV. From the Wikipedia article “Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport” (revision of 12 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers5.0M (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#338of 3,974 · #16 Africa · #2 NGLongest runway3,609 m11,842 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#372of 29,823 · #42 Africa · #3 NGElevation342 m1,123 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=15,927of 43,341 · #2,232 Africa · #16 NGRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =3 NG
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

4 channels
APPAPP127.900
ATISATIS127.050
TWRTWR118.600
GND121.900