airport

location where aircraft take off and land with extended support facilities, mostly for commercial air transport
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Summary

airport is a type of aerodrome[1]. airport draws 5,407 Wikipedia views per month (type of aerodrome category, ranking #1 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: aerodrome[3], station[4], transport structure[5]
  • Commons category: Airports[6]
  • Said to be the same as: commercial traffic aerodrome[7]
  • Has part(s): airport infrastructure[8], control room[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Airports[10]
  • Commons gallery: Airport[11]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of American Urban History[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[13], Green Map Icons[14]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox airport[15], Template:Airports in Iraq[16], Template:Airports in Suriname[17]
  • Has characteristic: airport security[18]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Airport[19], https://schema.org/Airport[20], https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=Airport[21]
  • Different from: Airport[22], Aéroport[23], Aerodrom[24], air base[25], aerodrome[26]
  • Properties for this type: P239[27], P238[28], P931[29], P529[30], P131[31], P3311[32], P521[33], P17[34], P138[35], P625[36], P127[37]

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Influence

Things named for airport include Ambient 1: Music for Airports[38], an album[39]; Airport[40], a literary work[41], written by Arthur Hailey[42]; vertiport[43]; and Breda International Airport[44], in Netherlands[45].

Why It Matters

airport has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] airport is known by 112 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

Entities named for airport include Ambient 1: Music for Airports[38], an album[39]; Airport[40], a literary work[41], written by Arthur Hailey[42]; vertiport[43]; and Breda International Airport[44], in Netherlands[45].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  1. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Airport, https://schema.org/Airport, https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=Airport"
  2. 28d ago · Zache · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14864 → lentoasema
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14864: lentoasema, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789688721844"
  3. 8w ago · Sbb1413 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → commercial traffic aerodrome
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Said to be the same as: commercial traffic aerodrome"
  4. 12w ago · DanGFSouza · 2026-07-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imdb keyword → airport
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Imdb keyword: airport, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/193885337|airport (#193885337)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6965|Top 10,000 IMDb keyword"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0009056-letiste
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0009056-letiste, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  6. 21w ago · Infovarius · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Airport, Aéroport, Aerodrom +2
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Different from: aerodrome, using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
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