Longest Airport Runways in the World

Source: Wikipedia (List of longest runways)

Longest Airport Runways in the World

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Key Findings

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Shigatse Peace (China) and Ulyanovsk Vostochny (Russia) are level at the top on 5,000 Runway Length (m).

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Average Runway Length (m): 4,864 · median: 4,864.

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Gap: Shigatse Peace (China) is 1.1× larger than N'djili, Kinshasa (DR Congo).

About This Dataset

Longest Airport Runways in the World

This chart ranks the world's longest airport runways at civil airports, measured in meters. Very long runways are built to serve high-altitude airports where thin air reduces lift, to accommodate heavy long-haul aircraft, or to double as emergency and test facilities. The longest examples are found on high plateaus and in hot or high-elevation locations.

Analysis

Shigatse Peace (China) and Ulyanovsk Vostochny (Russia) are level at the top on 5,000 Runway Length (m). Embraer Gaviao Peixoto (Brazil) follows on 4,967. Values run from 5,000 at the top to 4,700 at the bottom in Runway Length (m), a spread of 300. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 8 run from 4,967 down to 4,700 Runway Length (m).

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Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart

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Data Points

10 categories · 1 year

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Top Value

5,000

Shigatse Peace (China)

Runway Length (m) · All Time

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Runway Length (m)

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All Time

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Methodology & source

Data source: Wikipedia (List of longest runways)
Coverage: 10 entities · 10 observations
Measure: Runway Length (m)
Last updated: 6 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.

Rankings & Full Data

10 records · Runway Length (m) · ranked by All Time

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#	Category	All Time
🥇	Shigatse Peace (China)	5,000
🥈	Ulyanovsk Vostochny (Russia)	5,000
🥉	Embraer Gaviao Peixoto (Brazil)	4,967
4	Upington (South Africa)	4,900
5	Denver (United States)	4,877
6	Hamad, Doha (Qatar)	4,850
7	Madrid-Torrejon (Spain)	4,818
8	Erbil (Iraq)	4,800
9	Harare (Zimbabwe)	4,725
10	N'djili, Kinshasa (DR Congo)	4,700

Data Sources & References

All external sources cited in this dataset

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_runways Visit ↗

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