Qiemo Airport
Encyclopedia
Qiemo Airport is an airport
serving Qiemo Town
and the rest of Qiemo County
, in the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China
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of 4108 feet (1,252 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway
designated 01/19 which measures 1680 ×.
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
serving Qiemo Town
Qiemo Town
The oasis town of Qiemo or Cherchen is the capital of Qiemo County, of the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China is on the Qiemo River, at the foot of the Qilian Mountains, on the old Southern Silk Route...
and the rest of Qiemo County
Qiemo County
The Qiemo County , also known as Cherchen or Qarqan in the Uighur language, is a county under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its area is and, according to the 2002 census, it has a...
, in the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture , short for Bayingol is an autonomous prefecture of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest autonomous prefecture of China with an area of 462,700 km²...
of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
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Facilities
The airport resides at an elevationElevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 4108 feet (1,252 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...
designated 01/19 which measures 1680 ×.