Bole Alashankou Airport — Bole, China

Bole Alashankou Airport, coded BPL, serves the city of Bole in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China, near the border with Kazakhstan. The airport sits at 1,253 feet in elevation, and the field has only one runway to its name. It supports the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, an area shaped by trade routes running toward Central Asia through the nearby Alashankou border crossing. Domestic flights connect BPL to Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, and other Chinese cities, giving this border region an air link that shortens the long overland routes across the province's vast interior.