Germany: It helps to have a lot of airports when starting world wars.
UDcc123 on
It’d be interesting to see the same map, but comparing the ratio of population density to airport density.
niallw1997 on
Us Brits need to get out of the country as much as possible
Ignorhymus on
Ha, finally something where my country can excel – we’ve got 22.7 airports / 10,000 sq km. And they’re all international airports, too. (raw data: 1 airport, 439 sq km total land area)
GroundbreakingBag164 on
So… a population density map?
hache-moncour on
No source again, starts to become a new standard…
I’m very curious what the definition of ‘airport’ is for this, as the numbers seem ridiculously high unless you count pretty much every bit of grass where a Cessna could theoretically land.
Laaain on
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this also a case of more small airports vs fewer big ones? IIRC around London they built lots of smaller ones because they couldn’t allocate enough space to expand Heathrow or something.
DatGuyOvaThea on
Not sure how they got this number for croatia. We have 56k sq km in land which means there should be ~60 airports in the country according to this. We have 20-25 max.
zbynekstava on
Third place in Europe, nice.
barbadolid on
I’d like to know what is considered “airport” here. I’d bet a glorified airstrip with little to no maintenance and two yearly embraer flights qualifies in this map.
nitram20 on
What do you consider to be an airport though? Did you include private airports and airports that take planes (such as gliders and other small aircraft) but not regular passenger flights, or only airports that operate regular passenger flights? What about military airports? Is your information also up to date?
Because you listed 4.8 for Hungary, and while it has 5 international airports listed, only two of them actually take regular flights, with a third taking flights only seasonally from a single destination in the summer.
4 domestic airports also exist but none of them take any flights, as there is no public domestic air travel in the country.
The two dozen or so public “airports” are also a lie. Most of them do not work whatsoever, due to bad runways, not even for smaller planes. The “airport” in my city hasn’t worked in 20+ years and now is used as an industrial storage area.
However if your data is not up to date, you might be including airports that used to take regular flights but not anymore such as Pécs Pogány international airport which ceased all flights back in June this year.
Tldr: the entirety of Hungary is serviced only by two airports that take regular flights with a third only in the summer from a single destination, and there is no domestic air travel in the country.
Yocta on
Wondering why Denmark has so many compared to the Netherlands. They’re about the same size, but have much less inhabitants.
harassercat on
There are around a 100 “airports” in Iceland?
There’s only 1 proper international airport (Keflavík), and two smaller that are mostly domestic but can service international flights on a small scale.
Then 5-6 tiny airports which are purely domestic, some of which are not being used currently for any scheduled flights.
Anything else is just an airstrip somewhere, usually gravel only, used for ambulance flights, pilot training or just whatever private use. No building, nothing that anyone would define as an “airport”.
wileysegovia on
The British one can be explained easily. The Americans built many airfields there during WWII which were then probably converted into airports.
Ollie2220 on
There’s a reason they call us Airstrip One
yanan on
The UK is nowhere near that big.
Brewe on
Are you saying there are 81 airports in Denmark?
(43k km² / 10k km²) * 18,9 = 81,27
I can think of four, and then there are probably a couple I’m forgetting about, and maybe a couple of military only. So I’m guessing you’re either missing a zero in that “Airports per 10,000 sq km” sentence, or you’re also including air*fields*.
![Number of airports per 10,000 sq km in each European country [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/71ldf6501hvf1-1536x1048.jpeg "Number of airports per 10,000 sq km in each European country [OC]")
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Germany: It helps to have a lot of airports when starting world wars.
It’d be interesting to see the same map, but comparing the ratio of population density to airport density.
Us Brits need to get out of the country as much as possible
Ha, finally something where my country can excel – we’ve got 22.7 airports / 10,000 sq km. And they’re all international airports, too. (raw data: 1 airport, 439 sq km total land area)
So… a population density map?
No source again, starts to become a new standard…
I’m very curious what the definition of ‘airport’ is for this, as the numbers seem ridiculously high unless you count pretty much every bit of grass where a Cessna could theoretically land.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this also a case of more small airports vs fewer big ones? IIRC around London they built lots of smaller ones because they couldn’t allocate enough space to expand Heathrow or something.
Not sure how they got this number for croatia. We have 56k sq km in land which means there should be ~60 airports in the country according to this. We have 20-25 max.
Third place in Europe, nice.
I’d like to know what is considered “airport” here. I’d bet a glorified airstrip with little to no maintenance and two yearly embraer flights qualifies in this map.
What do you consider to be an airport though? Did you include private airports and airports that take planes (such as gliders and other small aircraft) but not regular passenger flights, or only airports that operate regular passenger flights? What about military airports? Is your information also up to date?
Because you listed 4.8 for Hungary, and while it has 5 international airports listed, only two of them actually take regular flights, with a third taking flights only seasonally from a single destination in the summer.
4 domestic airports also exist but none of them take any flights, as there is no public domestic air travel in the country.
The two dozen or so public “airports” are also a lie. Most of them do not work whatsoever, due to bad runways, not even for smaller planes. The “airport” in my city hasn’t worked in 20+ years and now is used as an industrial storage area.
However if your data is not up to date, you might be including airports that used to take regular flights but not anymore such as Pécs Pogány international airport which ceased all flights back in June this year.
Tldr: the entirety of Hungary is serviced only by two airports that take regular flights with a third only in the summer from a single destination, and there is no domestic air travel in the country.
Wondering why Denmark has so many compared to the Netherlands. They’re about the same size, but have much less inhabitants.
There are around a 100 “airports” in Iceland?
There’s only 1 proper international airport (Keflavík), and two smaller that are mostly domestic but can service international flights on a small scale.
Then 5-6 tiny airports which are purely domestic, some of which are not being used currently for any scheduled flights.
Anything else is just an airstrip somewhere, usually gravel only, used for ambulance flights, pilot training or just whatever private use. No building, nothing that anyone would define as an “airport”.
The British one can be explained easily. The Americans built many airfields there during WWII which were then probably converted into airports.
There’s a reason they call us Airstrip One
The UK is nowhere near that big.
Are you saying there are 81 airports in Denmark?
(43k km² / 10k km²) * 18,9 = 81,27
I can think of four, and then there are probably a couple I’m forgetting about, and maybe a couple of military only. So I’m guessing you’re either missing a zero in that “Airports per 10,000 sq km” sentence, or you’re also including air*fields*.
[Source](https://www.citypopulation.de/en/world/bymap/airports/)
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Moldova has 1 airport and 33.000 km2. How did you get 2.1 is beyond me.