Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport — Nagpur, India

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport occupies a strategically central spot in India, giving Nagpur's Sonegaon facility an outsized role in cargo and connectivity planning despite the city's medium size. NAG shares its runways with the Indian Air Force, a common arrangement at airports built or expanded around military installations in India. The airport was renamed for B. R. Ambedkar, principal architect of the Indian Constitution, who chose Nagpur as the site of his historic mass conversion to Buddhism in 1956, cementing the city's place in his legacy. Nagpur itself, nicknamed the Orange City for its citrus trade, sits near India's geographic center, a fact long promoted through the MIHAN project, an ambitious multi-modal cargo and logistics hub built around the airport to exploit overnight flight connections across the country. Passenger terminals have been modernized in recent years to support both business travel and the city's role as a road and rail crossroads.