Mmabatho International Airport — Mafeking, South Africa

MBD serves Mahikeng (formerly Mafeking), the capital of South Africa's North West Province. Mmabatho International Airport was built with an unusually long runway during the apartheid era to serve as the main gateway for the nominally independent Bophuthatswana homeland, at times even hosting wide-body aircraft on political and diplomatic flights. Today MBD sees far lighter traffic, mainly small regional and charter flights connecting Mahikeng to Johannesburg, alongside general aviation and occasional cargo movements. The oversized runway and terminal infrastructure remain a legacy of that period, giving the airport more capacity than its current passenger numbers require. It continues to function as the primary air link for the surrounding agricultural and mining region near the Botswana border.