Chamdo Bangda Airport (IATA: BPX, ICAO: ZUBD) (Chinese: 昌都邦达机场, Tibetan: fill in), located in Bangda, Chamdo, Tibet, is the highest airport in the world, with an altitude of 4,334 meters. Runway 14/32 is also the longest in the world. An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO airport code (IPA pronunciation: ) is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Qamdo (Tibetan:ཆབ་མདོ་རྫོང་(Chab-mdo), Mandarin Chinese:昌都(ChāngdÅ«)) is a county in Tibet. ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The metre, or meter (U.S.), is a measure of length. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Runway 13R/31L of El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The metre, or meter (U.S.), is a measure of length. ... Base layer of asphalt concrete in a road under construction. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO airport code (IPA pronunciation: ) is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... The Tibetan language is spoken primarily by the Tibetan people who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia, as well as by large number of Tibetan refugees all over the world. ... Qamdo (Tibetan:ཆབ་མདོ་རྫོང་(Chab-mdo), Mandarin Chinese:昌都(ChāngdÅ«)) is a county in Tibet. ... Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: བོད་; Wylie: Bod; Lhasa dialect IPA: [; Simplified and Traditional Chinese: 西藏, Hanyu Pinyin: XÄ«zàng; also referred to as 藏区 (Simplified Chinese), 藏區 (Traditional Chinese), ZàngqÅ« (Hanyu Pinyin), having the two names different connotations; see Name section below) is a plateau region in Central Asia and the... Altitude is the elevation of an object from a known level or datum. ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ...

Scheduled Services

• Air China (Chengdu, Lhasa)

Not to be confused with China Airlines. ...

Sources

• Article about the airport
• Translated version of the article
• Chamdo Bangda Airport at Great Circle Mapper