Djibouti-Ambouli Airport — Djibouti City, Djibouti

Djibouti-Ambouli Airport, known by the code JIB, functions as both the civilian gateway to Djibouti City and a shared installation hosting foreign military forces drawn to the country's position at the mouth of the Red Sea near the Bab-el-Mandeb strait. The United States operates Camp Lemonnier adjacent to the airfield, its largest permanent base in Africa, while France, Japan, and China also maintain a military presence in the small nation, making Djibouti one of the most militarized patches of coastline on the continent. Commercial flights through JIB connect the capital to Addis Ababa, the Gulf states, and select European destinations, supporting an economy built around port logistics and shipping traffic bound for the Suez Canal route. The runway and facilities reflect this dual civil-military purpose, with capacity well beyond what Djibouti's population alone would require.