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List of airports in Zambia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJan 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ6605460 ↗
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This is a list of airports in Zambia, sorted by location.

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighboring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the northeast, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.

Zambia is divided into ten provinces. The capital city is Lusaka.

Airports

Airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines.

See also

Department of Civil Aviation of Zambia

Transport in Zambia

List of Zambian airports by ICAO code

Wikipedia: WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: Africa#Zambia

References

"ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 12 January 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2012.

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