Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport

By the numbers

• 9,843 ft

  Runway, all told

  1.6 nm of pavement across 1 runway

• 5th

  Longest in Afghanistan

  of 9 airfields in the country

• 1085th

  Longest in the world

  of 4,677 with a measured runway

• 9th

  Highest in Afghanistan

  1,284 ft above sea level

• 35 nm

  Nearest airfield

  UZST, bearing 008

• Asphalt

  Surface

  Every runway lit