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Kankan Airport

airport in Guinea

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ2977538 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kankan Airport (IATA: KNN, ICAO: GUXD) (or Kankan Diankana Airport) is an airport serving Kankan, capital of the Kankan Region in Guinea. It is 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northeast of the city, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of the village of Diankana.

The airport was formerly within Kankan, with the ICAO code of GUXN. The old runway is now a street in the city.

The Kankan non-directional beacon (Ident: KN) is located in the city, 5.4 nautical miles (10.0 km) southwest of the airport.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kankan Airport” as airport in Guinea. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kankan, Airport and airport.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 84-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 Kankan, Airport and airport providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Kankan Airport”, the useful work is to connect “airport in Guinea” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2977538. Authority coordinates are 10.448, -9.227. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kankan Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kankan Airport primary sources, Kankan Airport archive and Kankan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Kankan 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.