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Nouadhibou International Airport

ICAO GQPP20.9324°N 17.0302°W7 m / 24 ftLarge airport
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Nouadhibou International Airport (IATA: NDB, ICAO: GQPP) is a large airport in Nouadhibou, Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, Mauritania. It has one runway, 2,427 m (7,961 ft) long, asphalt.

Timeline

1 event · 1980–1980
07 AUG 1980
Disaster1980 Nouadhibou Tupolev Tu-154 crash.1 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
02/20014° / 194° · LIT
LENGTH2,427 m7,961 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

3 destinations · 2 countries

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from NDB. From the Wikipedia article “Nouadhibou International Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway2,427 m7,961 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#2,801of 29,823 · #340 Africa · #6 MRElevation7 m24 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,916of 43,341 · =3,051 Africa · #23 MRRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =176 Africa · =2 MR
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
A/GRDO886.100
TWRTWR120.800