Bakel Airport — Bakel, Senegal

Bakel Airport serves the town of Bakel in Senegal's Tambacounda Region, near the country's eastern border with Mali and Mauritania. The strip sits 98 feet up and consists of one runway, enough for the limited air traffic reaching this part of Senegal far removed from the coastal capital, Dakar. Coded BXE, the airport spares administrators, aid workers, and residents with family ties elsewhere in Senegal from the long drive across the country's interior. Bakel sits along the Senegal River, which marks much of the border with Mauritania in this stretch, and the surrounding Tambacounda Region remains one of the country's less-populated and less-developed areas, making air access a meaningful convenience despite modest traffic volumes.