Bam Airport — Bam, Iran

Bam Airport serves the city of Bam in Iran's Kerman Province, in the country's arid southeast. Elevation climbs to 3,231 feet here, where a lone runway connects Bam with other cities in Kerman Province and the rest of Iran. Coded BXR, the field provides air access for a region defined by desert terrain and long distances between population centers, a common feature of southeastern Iran. Kerman Province stretches across some of the country's driest landscape, bordering areas that see little rainfall through most of the year. Air service through BXR gives residents and visitors a faster alternative to road travel across this stretch of Iran's desert interior, where Bam functions as one of the province's secondary population centers.