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Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport (NKC)

Nouakchott, Mauritania · ICAO GQNO · IATA NKC

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Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport (GQNO)16340624
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 21 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Nouakchott, Mauritania
ICAO code
GQNO
IATA code
NKC
Elevation
9 ft
Longest runway
11,155 ft (16/34)
Runways
2
Size class
Large
Position
18.3100, -15.9697

About GQNO

Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport (NKC) is a large airport in Nouakchott, Mauritania, with the ICAO code GQNO. Its two runways are 16/34 and 06/24. The longer one, 16/34, is 11,155 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 49 taxiway segments, 7 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 12 airlines have 80 routes through GQNO. Its most frequent links are Dakar (DSS), Paris (CDG) and Casablanca (CMN).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
16 / 3411,155 ft197 ftHardLit
06 / 247,875 ft148 ftHardLit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

  • Air France AFR15 routes
  • Turkish THY11 routes
  • Royal Air Maroc RAM7 routes
  • Air Algerie DAH2 routes
  • Iberia IBE2 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: MAI, SKK, TAR, IBB, MPH, SZN, SWT.

Connected airports

Nearby airports with maps

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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.