KHG
Kashgar Laining International Airport
Kashgar Laining International Airport (IATA: KHG, ICAO: ZWSH) is a large airport in Kashgar, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. It opened on 10 Mar 1954. It has one runway, 3,200 m (10,499 ft) long, concrete. In 2022 it handled 1.6 million passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1954–195410 MAR 1954
OpenedKashgar Laining International Airport opens.
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap08/26086° / 266° · LIT
LENGTH3,200 m10,499 ftWIDTH41 m135 ftSURFACEConcrete
Passengers per year
2011–2022913K
1.1M
1.1M
1.4M
1.7M
1.8M
2.0M
2.1M
2.4M
1.3M
2.2M
1.6M
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Routes
42 destinations · 4 countriesYear-round40
QSZShache AirportChina · China Express Airlines170 km106 miTWCTumxuk Tangwangcheng AirportChina · China Express Airlines277 km172 miOSSOsh International AirportKyrgyzstan · Chengdu Airlines299 km186 miAKUAksu Hongqipo AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines409 km254 miHTNHotan AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines436 km271 miACFAral Tarim AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines457 km284 miLBDKhujand International AirportTajikistan · Chengdu Airlines545 km339 miYTWYutian Wanfang AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines588 km365 miKCAKuqa Qiuci AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines625 km388 miYINIli Yining International AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines659 km409 miBPLBole Alashankou AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines788 km490 miKRLKorla Licheng AirportChina · China Express Airlines885 km550 miNGQNgari Gunsa AirportChina · Tibet Airlines, Lucky Air, China Eastern Airlines904 km562 miKRYKaramay AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines984 km611 miTCGTacheng Qianquan AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines990 km615 miURCÜrümqi Tianshan International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines, Tianjin Airlines, Urumqi Air +51,067 km663 miTLQTurpan Jiaohe AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines1,158 km720 miJBKQitai Jiangbulake AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines1,231 km765 miAATAltay Xuedu AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines1,330 km826 miDHHBarkol Dahe AirportChina · Chengdu Airlines1,494 km928 miHMIHami AirportChina · China Express Airlines, Chengdu Airlines1,519 km944 miXNNXining Caojiabao International AirportChina · West Air, Tibet Airlines2,295 km1,426 miLHWLanzhou Zhongchuan International AirportChina · Spring Airlines, Chengdu Airlines, Fuzhou Airlines2,431 km1,511 miZHYZhongwei Shapotou AirportChina · West Air2,532 km1,573 miINCYinchuan Hedong International AirportChina · Loong Air2,618 km1,627 miCTUChengdu Shuangliu International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines2,717 km1,688 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Urumqi Air, Air China2,772 km1,722 miXIYXi'an Xianyang International AirportChina · Fuzhou Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Loong Air2,946 km1,831 miCKGChongqing Jiangbei International AirportChina · Chongqing Airlines2,990 km1,858 miCGOZhengzhou Xinzheng International AirportChina · West Air, Urumqi Air, Hainan Airlines +13,379 km2,100 miPEKBeijing Capital International AirportChina · Sichuan Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Air China3,436 km2,135 miTNAJinan Yaoqiang International AirportChina · Shandong Airlines3,581 km2,225 miZHAZhanjiang Wuchuan International AirportChina · Urumqi Air3,837 km2,384 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · Loong Air3,927 km2,440 miSZXShenzhen Bao'an International AirportChina · Hainan Airlines4,019 km2,497 miHGHHangzhou Xiaoshan International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines, Loong Air4,136 km2,570 miSHAShanghai Hongqiao International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines4,167 km2,589 miPVGShanghai Pudong International AirportChina · China Eastern Airlines4,210 km2,616 miNGBNingbo Lishe International AirportChina · Loong Air4,246 km2,638 miFOCFuzhou Changle International AirportChina · Fuzhou Airlines4,306 km2,676 miMost destinationsChengdu Airlines 17China Express Airlines 13China Eastern Airlines 7Loong Air 6Urumqi Air 4Hainan Airlines 4
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KHG. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Kashgar Laining International Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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
1 channelsTWRTWR118.500