Nay Pyi Taw International Airport — Naypyitaw, Myanmar

Myanmar's government relocated its capital from Yangon to a newly built city on the central plains in 2005, and Nay Pyi Taw International Airport, carrying the code NYT, opened several years later as part of the infrastructure built to support this planned administrative center, complete with wide multi-lane boulevards and government compounds spread across a vast footprint. The airport's runway extends some 12,000 feet, a length that dwarfs the modest scale of scheduled air traffic actually using it, since most international travelers to Myanmar still arrive through Yangon rather than the capital. Domestic flights connect Nay Pyi Taw to Yangon and Mandalay, carrying officials, diplomats, and a smaller number of tourists visiting the capital's oversized monuments, including a replica of Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda built on an equally grand scale. The mismatch between NYT's infrastructure and its light passenger volume is among the more frequently noted features of Myanmar's purpose-built capital.