Airports and airstrips of Awdal, Maroodi Jeex, Togdheer, Sanaag and Sool

About this list

The rows join three open registers: OurAirports (Somalia list), the GeoNames gazetteer (GeoNames) and Wikidata (Wikidata). Fields within 4 km of each other in two registers are shown as one row. Heights from OurAirports are in feet, from GeoNames in metres. The Somali name in brackets is the Wikidata label. The regions are named as on the pre-1991 map; for how they are administered today see Somaliland and North Eastern State.

The two main airports

• Hargeisa: Egal International Airport, opened by the RAF in 1954, runway extended in 2013.
• Berbera: Berbera International Airport, the Soviet-built 4 km runway, reopened after a UAE-funded rebuild in November 2021.

Burao (Burco)

Burao Airport (BUO, HCMV) lies less than a kilometre north-east of the New Bridge in the city centre. Wikipedia records that its facilities were being renovated under the supervision of the International Civil Aviation Organization as of 2012 (Wikipedia, Burao Airport). OurAirports lists a dirt runway, 04/22, of 7,875 feet (2,400 m) at 3,400 feet above sea level (OurAirports, HCMV).

Borama (Boorama)

Borama Airport (BXX) serves the capital of Awdal. Wikipedia states that it is not in use and that there are plans to reopen it (Wikipedia, Borama Airport); a Somaliland aviation minister pledged to revive it (Somaliland Informer).

Erigavo (Ceerigaabo)

Erigavo Airport (ERA, HCMU), also called Garoonka Diyaaradaha Ilkacase, serves the capital of Sanaag. At 5,720 feet (1,743 m) it is the highest recorded airfield on this page, with a 2,000-metre runway (Wikipedia, Erigavo Airport).

Las Anod (Laascaanood)

Las Anod's airstrip (HCMP) is at Tifafleh, about 10 km north-west of the city (Wikipedia, Las Anod Airport). Wikipedia notes that Tifafle was a waypoint in early 20th-century boundary talks between Britain, Italy and the Dervish State, and that in the 2010s the airport saw disputes over khat imports and fighting between local groups; in October 2018 a plane carrying medical supplies was barred from landing (World News, October 2018).

In January 2025 the SSC-Khaatumo administration laid a foundation stone for a new airport, as part of a community-funded programme (Somali Dispatch). On 14 April 2025 Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre and a federal delegation launched construction (SONNA). In August 2026 North Eastern State's president, Abdikadir Ahmed Aw-Ali "Firdhiye", named a committee to build the airport (Horseed Media). Wikipedia reports that the state's civil aviation minister said China had offered to finance it, and that the administration chose to go ahead through community self-reliance (isku-tashi bulsho) (Wikipedia).

Buuhoodle, Taleex and Las Qoray

Wikidata records Ismail Mire International Airport near Buuhoodle in the Cayn area, with the IATA code BHE, and an airport at Taleex (Taleh) (Wikidata, Q25067584; Wikidata, Q16901093). OurAirports lists a strip at the coastal town of Las Qoray (Las Khorey), code LKR (OurAirports, SO-0008).

Every recorded airfield

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