Airports and airstrips
Airports and airstrips of Gedo, Bakool, Bay and the Jubba valley
The south-west of Somalia has 16 recorded airfields across Gedo, Bakool, Bay, Middle Juba and Lower Juba. Kismayo and Baidoa have long paved runways. The rest, at Baardheere, Garbahaarrey, Luuq, Doolow, Xuddur, Waajid, Afmadow, Dhoobley and other towns, are smaller strips, most with no published runway data. This page lists each one with sources.
About this list
The rows join OurAirports (Somalia list), the GeoNames gazetteer (GeoNames) and Wikidata (Wikidata). Fields that two registers place within 4 km of each other are one row. Heights from OurAirports are in feet, from GeoNames in metres; the Somali name in brackets is the Wikidata label.
The two long runways
- Kismayo: Kismayo Airport, a 3.7 km asphalt runway built in the 1970s, run by the Jubaland administration since 2013.
- Baidoa: Baidoa Airport, a 2,940-metre asphalt runway first paved with Soviet help in 1974.
Gedo
- Baardheere (Bardera): the airport (BSY, HCMD) is at about 550 feet above sea level, with one compacted-sand runway, 15/33, of 1,300 by 30 metres (Wikipedia, Bardera Airport). OurAirports gives 4,017 feet (OurAirports).
- Garbahaarrey: the airport (GBM) serving Gedo's capital has one runway of 1,050 metres (Wikipedia, Garbaharey Airport).
- Luuq: Lugh Ganane Airport (LGX, HCMJ) serves the river town of Luuq (Wikipedia, Lugh Ganane Airport).
- Doolow: OurAirports and Wikidata list a strip on the Somali side of the border town, code HCDL (Wikidata, Q134601913). Across the border, Dolo in Ethiopia has its own airport, built between 2009 and 2012 to support UNHCR's refugee camps (Wikipedia, Dolo Airport); see Airports of the Somali Region of Ethiopia.
- GeoNames also marks strips at Buurdhuubo and Berdaale West.
Bakool and Bay
GeoNames records airfields at Xuddur (Hudur), the capital of Bakool, at Waajid and at Yeed, and at Diinsoor in Bay (GeoNames, Hudur; GeoNames, Waajid; GeoNames, Yeed; GeoNames, Diinsoor). Wikidata holds an unnamed airport record in Bakool at 3.8° N, 43.05° E (Wikidata, Q11824548).
Middle and Lower Juba
OurAirports lists strips at Afmadow, Bu'aale (code HCBU, also called Dujuma), Dhoobley near the Kenyan border, and Jamaame on the lower Jubba (OurAirports, SO-0017; OurAirports, SO-0018; OurAirports, SO-0007; OurAirports, SO-0016). Afmadow lies about 110 km north-west of Kismayo; it was taken by Jubaland forces backed by the Kenyan army on 31 May 2012 (Wikipedia, Afmadow, citing BBC, May 2012).
Every recorded airfield
| Airfield | Town | Codes | Runway | Height | Position | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afmadow Airport | Afmadow | 79 ft | 0.538, 42.056 | OurAirports; GeoNames | ||
| Baardheere Airport (Gegada diyaaradaha Baardheere) | Baardheere | BSY / HCMD | 15/33 4017 ft sand | 396 ft | 2.33, 42.312 | OurAirports; GeoNames; Wikidata; Wikipedia |
| Baidoa Airport | Baidoa | BIB / HCMB | 1820 ft | 3.102, 43.627 | OurAirports; GeoNames | |
| Berdaale West | 405 m | 3.217, 43.177 | GeoNames | |||
| Bu'aale Airfield | Bu'aale | HCBU | 200 ft | 1.268, 42.588 | OurAirports | |
| Buurdhuubo Airstrip | Buurdhuubo | 3.157, 42.525 | OurAirports; GeoNames | |||
| Dhoobley Airstrip | Dhoobley | 0.4, 40.996 | OurAirports; GeoNames | |||
| Diinsoor | 333 m | 2.43, 42.971 | GeoNames | |||
| Doolow Airport | Doolow | HCDL | 625 ft | 4.149, 42.081 | OurAirports; GeoNames; Wikidata; Wikipedia | |
| Garbaharey Airport (Gegada diyaaradaha Gerbohaareey) | Garbaharey | GBM | 755 ft | 3.323, 42.213 | OurAirports; GeoNames; Wikidata; Wikipedia | |
| Hudur | 495 m | 4.125, 43.879 | GeoNames | |||
| Jamaame Airstrip | Jamaame | 0.058, 42.755 | OurAirports; GeoNames | |||
| Kismayo Airport | Kismayo | KMU / HCMK | 4/22 12139 ft ASP | 49 ft | -0.377, 42.459 | OurAirports; GeoNames |
| Lugh Ganane Airport | Luuq | LGX / HCMJ | 507 ft | 3.812, 42.546 | OurAirports; GeoNames; Wikidata; Wikipedia | |
| Waajid | 375 m | 3.829, 43.248 | GeoNames | |||
| Yeed | 355 m | 4.537, 43.034 | GeoNames |
Related
Sources
- Somalia list · ourairports.com
- GeoNames · geonames.org
- Wikidata · wikidata.org
- Wikipedia, Bardera Airport · en.wikipedia.org
- OurAirports · ourairports.com
- Wikipedia, Garbaharey Airport · en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, Lugh Ganane Airport · en.wikipedia.org
- Wikidata, Q134601913 · wikidata.org
- Wikipedia, Dolo Airport · en.wikipedia.org
- GeoNames, Hudur · geonames.org
- GeoNames, Waajid · geonames.org
- GeoNames, Yeed · geonames.org
- GeoNames, Diinsoor · geonames.org
- Wikidata, Q11824548 · wikidata.org
- OurAirports, SO-0017 · ourairports.com
- OurAirports, SO-0018 · ourairports.com
- OurAirports, SO-0007 · ourairports.com
- OurAirports, SO-0016 · ourairports.com
- Wikipedia, Afmadow · en.wikipedia.org
- BBC, May 2012 · bbc.co.uk
- GeoNames · geonames.org
- GeoNames · geonames.org
- Wikidata · wikidata.org
- OurAirports · ourairports.com
- GeoNames · geonames.org
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- OurAirports · ourairports.com
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- Wikidata · wikidata.org
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- OurAirports · ourairports.com
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- OurAirports · ourairports.com
- GeoNames · geonames.org
- Wikidata · wikidata.org
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