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Kazakhstan: airports in numbers
In the open OurAirports register, Kazakhstan shows 19 large airports, 9 medium ones and 82 small fields. Opening the table is Aktau International Airport (SCO), followed by Aktobe International Airport (AKX): 847.3 km in a straight line between the two, the second one northeast of the first. The "main airport" label in Kazakhstan is a declared proxy, since the source measures no traffic: large before medium, scheduled service before the rest.
The airports, one by one
| # | Airport | IATA | ICAO | City | Size | Elevation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aktau International Airport | SCO | UATE | Aktau | large | 22 m (73 ft) |
| 2 | Aktobe International Airport | AKX | UATT | Aktobe | large | 225 m (738 ft) |
| 3 | Almaty International Airport | ALA | UAAA | Almaty | large | 681 m (2,234 ft) |
| 4 | Atyrau International Airport | GUW | UATG | Atyrau | large | -22 m (-72 ft) |
| 5 | Baikonur Krayniy International Airport | BXY | UAOL | Baikonur | large | 97 m (317 ft) |
| 6 | Hazrat Sultan International Airport | HSA | UAIT | Turkıstan | large | 290 m (951 ft) |
| 7 | Kokshetau International Airport | KOV | UACK | Kokshetau | large | 274 m (900 ft) |
| 8 | Korkyt Ata International Airport | KZO | UAOO | Kyzylorda | large | 132 m (433 ft) |
| 9 | Kostanay International Airport | KSN | UAUU | Kostanay | large | 181 m (595 ft) |
| 10 | Manshuk Mametova International Airport | URA | UARR | Uralsk | large | 38 m (125 ft) |
| 11 | Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport | NQZ | UACC | Astana | large | 355 m (1,165 ft) |
| 12 | Oskemen International Airport | UKK | UASK | Ust-Kamenogorsk (Oskemen) | large | 286 m (939 ft) |
| 13 | Pavlodar International Airport | PWQ | UASP | Pavlodar | large | 125 m (410 ft) |
| 14 | Petropavl International Airport | PPK | UACP | Petropavl | large | 138 m (453 ft) |
| 15 | Sary-Arka Airport | KGF | UAKK | Karaganda | large | 538 m (1,765 ft) |
| 16 | Semei International Airport | PLX | UASS | Semey | large | 232 m (761 ft) |
| 17 | Shymkent International Airport | CIT | UAII | Shymkent | large | 422 m (1,385 ft) |
| 18 | Taraz International Airport | DMB | UADD | Taraz | large | 666 m (2,184 ft) |
| 19 | Zhezkazgan National Airport | DZN | UAKD | Zhezkazgan | large | 381 m (1,250 ft) |
| 20 | Balkhash Airport | BXH | UAAH | Balkhash | medium | 441 m (1,446 ft) |
| 21 | Taldykorgan Airport | TDK | UAAT | Taldykorgan | medium | 587 m (1,925 ft) |
| 22 | Ayaguz Airport | - | UASA | Ayaguz | medium | 646 m (2,119 ft) |
| 23 | Dolon Air Base | - | KZ-7470 | Semey | medium | 215 m (705 ft) |
| 24 | Ekibastuz Airport | EKB | UASB | Ekibastuz | medium | 189 m (621 ft) |
| 25 | Kurchatov Airfield | - | KZ-0068 | Kurchatov | medium | 166 m (545 ft) |
| 26 | Shalkar Airport | - | UATR | Shalkar | medium | 171 m (561 ft) |
| 27 | Yubileyniy Airfield | - | UAON | Töretam | medium | 100 m (328 ft) |
| 28 | Zhangiztobe Air Base | - | KZ-0069 | Zhangiztobe | medium | - |
The geography of Kazakhstan's fields
The country's highest airport in the register is Almaty International Airport, at 681 m (2,234 ft); the lowest is Atyrau International Airport, at -22 m (-72 ft). The northernmost field is Petropavl International Airport (Petropavl), at latitude 54.78 N, and the southernmost is Shymkent International Airport (Shymkent), at 42.37 N: 1,380.2 km separate the two extremes in a straight line. Of the 28 large and medium fields listed, 21 had scheduled service in the source's snapshot. Between the highest and the lowest field there is a 703 m elevation gap. The IATA codes at the top of the table: SCO, AKX, ALA, GUW, BXY, HSA, KOV, KZO.
Source and method
The size classes used for Kazakhstan (large, medium, small) come from OurAirports itself, a public domain source, snapshot of 2026-07-08, with heliports and closed fields left out of the count. Elevations arrive in feet and this site converts them to meters; every distance is haversine, in a straight line. Passenger traffic does not exist in the source, which is why the "main airport" title in Kazakhstan is only a declared proxy, the table order. In the world ranking by large airports, Kazakhstan sits in 12th place, next to Indonesia and Türkiye. The whole planet, country by country, lives in the airports of the world in numbers.
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