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Ouro Sogui Airport

airstrip serving Matam, Senegal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7111305 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ouro Sogui Airport (IATA: MAX, ICAO: GOSM) is an airport serving Matam, a city on the Sénégal River and capital of the Matam Region in Senegal. The airport is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Matam, near the town of Ouro Sogui.

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"Current weather for GOSM".

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The public source identifies “Ouro Sogui Airport” as airstrip serving Matam, Senegal. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ouro, Sogui and Airport.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 49-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ouro, Sogui and Airport providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7111305. Authority coordinates are 15.600, -13.330. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ouro Sogui Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.