Shennongjia Airport
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Shennongjia Airport is an airport currently under construction in Shennongjia
, a forestry district in western Hubei Province, China
. It is located in the town of Hongping. Construction started in April 2011 with a total investment of over 1 billion yuan. At an elevation of 2,580 meters above sea level, Shennongjia Airport will be the highest airport in China outside of the Tibetan Plateau
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Shennongjia
Shennongjia Forestry District is a county-level administrative unit in Hubei province, directly subordinated to the provincial government...
, a forestry district in western Hubei Province, China
China
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. It is located in the town of Hongping. Construction started in April 2011 with a total investment of over 1 billion yuan. At an elevation of 2,580 meters above sea level, Shennongjia Airport will be the highest airport in China outside of the Tibetan Plateau
Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau , also known as the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau is a vast, elevated plateau in Central Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai, in addition to smaller portions of western Sichuan, southwestern Gansu, and northern Yunnan in Western China and Ladakh in...
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