LaGuardia Airport

airport in Queens, New York City
Airport international_airport Q319654
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Summary

LaGuardia Airport is an international airport[1]. It ranks in the top 0.87% of international airport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,418 views/month, #10 of 1,156).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Queens[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: airport[5], commercial traffic aerodrome[6]
  • Owned by: New York City[7]
  • Operator: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey[8]
  • Named after: Fiorello H. La Guardia[9]
  • IATA airport code: LGA[10]
  • ICAO airport code: KLGA[11]
  • FAA airport code: LGA[12]
  • Commons category: LaGuardia Airport[13]
  • Scheduled service destination: Toronto Pearson International Airport[14]
  • Runway: 04/22[15], 13/31[16]
  • Official website: https://www.laguardiaairport.com/[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:LaGuardia Airport[18]
  • Has facility: Wi-Fi[19]
  • Place served by transport hub: New York City[20]
  • Date of official opening: October 15, 1939[21]
  • Short name: New York-La Guardia[22], Nowy Jork-LaGuardia[23]
  • Elevation above sea level: 20 feet[24]
  • Patronage: 19,686,256[25], 19,745,847[26], 19,804,566[27], 20,730,467[28], 20,599,210[29], 20,699,136[30], 21,607,448[31], 22,811,935[32], 23,926,923[33], 25,233,889[34], 22,519,874[35], 21,986,679[36], 22,482,770[37], 24,435,619[38]

Why It Matters

LaGuardia Airport has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] It is known by 92 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . store.aci.aero. store.aci.aero. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . nameexplorer.urbanarchive.org. Retrieved . nameexplorer.urbanarchive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . faa.gov. faa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . nfdc.faa.gov. nfdc.faa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . nfdc.faa.gov. nfdc.faa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . laguardiaairport.com. Retrieved . laguardiaairport.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . store.aci.aero. store.aci.aero. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . faa.gov. faa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . 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. 11d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 58
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ast', 'ban', 'bn', 'ca', 'ceb', 'ckb', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en
    Postimees topic id → 749131
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Postimees topic id: 749131, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/177253746|LaGuardia lennujaam (#177253746)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6728|Postimees top"
  2. 4w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Logo image → LGA airport logo.svg
    Located in time zone → —
    P14536 → 365042
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55346|batch #55346]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 23w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Queens
    Has facility → Wi-Fi
    Patronage → {'amount': '+19686256'}, {'amount': '+19745847'}, {'amount': '+19804566'} +68
    Named after → —
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["Airport", "KLGA"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257634|batch #257634]]"
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