NGQ

Ngari Gunsa Airport

ICAO ZUAL32.0979°N 80.0540°E4,274 m / 14,022 ftMedium airport
On the map

Ngari Gunsa Airport (IATA: NGQ, ICAO: ZUAL) is a medium airport in Shiquanhe, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It opened on 1 Jul 2010. It has one runway, 4,500 m (14,764 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 113 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 2010–2010
01 JUL 2010
OpenedNgari Gunsa Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
15/33
LENGTH4,500 m14,764 ftWIDTH—SURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
9K
18K
28K
41K
61K
62K
66K
75K
91K
96K
190K
113K
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Routes

5 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsTibet Airlines 4Lucky Air 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from NGQ. From the Wikipedia article “Ngari Gunsa Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers113K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,764of 3,974 · #578 Asia · #192 CNLongest runway4,500 m14,764 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=27of 29,823 · =6 Asia · =4 CNElevation4,274 m14,022 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#11of 43,341 · #8 Asia · #6 CNAgeOpened 20102026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=12,749of 15,079 · =655 Asia · =140 CNRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =31 CN
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