Manas International Airport — Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Manas International Airport serves Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, from a site on the northern edge of the country near the Kazakh border. The airport uses the code BSZ and climbs to 2,058 feet on the edge of the Chuy Valley. Kyrgyzstan's aviation records list Manas among its large airports, though the underlying dataset carries no runway figure for the field, an omission in the record rather than proof that the field has none. Manas is perhaps best known internationally for hosting the Transit Center at Manas, a US and NATO military logistics hub that supported coalition operations in Afghanistan from 2001 until the facility closed in 2014. That chapter of the airport's history brought it far more global attention than its ordinary role as Kyrgyzstan's principal civilian gateway, which continues to handle domestic and international flights connecting Bishkek to Russia, Turkey, and other regional destinations today. Cargo traffic tied to Central Asian trade routes has also grown steadily at BSZ in recent years.