Madrid-Barajas Airport

international airport serving Madrid, Spain
Airport international_airport Q166276
Madrid-Barajas Airport
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Summary

Madrid-Barajas Airport is an international airport[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of international airport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,686 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Barajas[3]
  • Country: Spain[4]
  • Instance of: commercial traffic aerodrome[5]
  • Owned by: ENAIRE[6]
  • Operator: ENAIRE[7]
  • Named after: Madrid[8], Barajas[9], Adolfo Suárez[10]
  • IATA airport code: MAD[11]
  • ICAO airport code: LEMD[12]
  • Commons category: Madrid-Barajas Airport[13]
  • Scheduled service destination: Narita International Airport[14], İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport[15]
  • Runway: 14L/32R[16], 18R/36L[17], 18L/36R[18], 14R/32L[19]
  • Inception: April 22, 1931[20]
  • Coordinate location: 40.472222222222, -3.5608333333333[21]
  • Interchange station: Aeropuerto T1-T2-T3[22], Aeropuerto T4[23]
  • Official website: https://www.aena.es/en/adolfo-suarez-madrid-barajas.html[24], https://www.aena.es/es/adolfo-suarez-madrid-barajas.html[25]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport[26]
  • Place served by transport hub: Madrid[27]
  • Date of official opening: 1928[28]
  • Short name: Madrid-Barajas[29]
  • Elevation above sea level: 610[30]
  • Area: 2400[31]
  • Has part(s) of the class: airport terminal[32]
  • Aerodrome reference point: 40.4936, -3.56676[33]
  • Patronage: 32,893,190[34], 34,047,931[35], 33,913,456[36], 35,855,861[37], 35,854,293[38], 38,718,614[39], 38,704,731[40], 42,146,784[41], 41,940,059[42], 45,799,983[43], 45,769,971[44], 52,110,787[45], 52,122,702[46], 50,846,494[47]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Madrid-Barajas Airport include Aeropuerto T4[48], a metro station[49], in Spain[50], founded in 2007[51] and Aeropuerto T1-T2-T3[52], a metro station[53], in Spain[54], founded in 1999[55].

Why It Matters

Madrid-Barajas Airport has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[56] It is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[57]

Entities named for it include Aeropuerto T4[48], a metro station[49], in Spain[50], founded in 2007[51] and Aeropuerto T1-T2-T3[52], a metro station[53], in Spain[54], founded in 1999[55].

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [56] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [57] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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