NSI

Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport

ICAO FKYS3.7226°N 11.5533°E694 m / 2,278 ftLarge airport
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Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport (IATA: NSI, ICAO: FKYS) is a large airport in Yaoundé, Centre Region, Cameroon. It has one runway, 3,400 m (11,155 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Aéroports du Cameroun. In 2018 it handled 707 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
NSIMALEN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
01/19010° / 190° · LIT
LENGTH3,400 m11,155 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2018
258K
306K
345K
348K
396K
478K
707K
11121315161718

Routes

17 destinations · 13 countries
Most destinationsCamair-Co 8Asky Airlines 3Ethiopian Airlines 2Afrijet Business Service 1ECAir 1Air Côte d'Ivoire 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from NSI. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers707K (2018)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#958of 3,974 · #57 Africa · #2 CMLongest runway3,400 m11,155 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=586of 29,823 · =87 Africa · #1 CMElevation694 m2,278 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#7,700of 43,341 · #1,551 Africa · #12 CMRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =1 CM
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

2 channels
APPAPP121.300
TWRTWR119.100