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Osvaldo Vieira International Airport

ICAO GGOV11.8943°N 15.6536°W39 m / 129 ftLarge airport
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Osvaldo Vieira International Airport (IATA: OXB, ICAO: GGOV) is a large airport in Bissau, Bissau Autonomous Sector, Guinea-Bissau. It has one runway, 3,200 m (10,499 ft) long, asphalt. In 2016 it handled 84 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
03/21019° / 199° · LIT
LENGTH3,200 m10,499 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2016
77K
84K
1516

Routes

6 destinations · 6 countries
Most destinationsAir Côte d'Ivoire 2Turkish Airlines 2Air Senegal 1Asky Airlines 1Royal Air Maroc 1TAP Air Portugal 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from OXB. From the Wikipedia article “Osvaldo Vieira International Airport” (revision of 21 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers84K (2016)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,884of 3,974 · #126 AfricaLongest runway3,200 m10,499 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=819of 29,823 · =126 Africa · #1 GWElevation39 m129 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,897of 43,341 · =2,837 Africa · #5 GWRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =1 GW
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

3 channels
A/GA/G VOICE RDO343.200
APPAPP123.900
TWRTWR124.300