Can you name the countries with the most airports?

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Countries with Most Airports Quiz

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Created by: davidr -
Published: July 16th, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 153,101

Tags: Country Quizzes, rank, airport

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	Joseph United:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:17 GMT	99 points
	I think the USA needs some more airports

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	tere:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:19 GMT	9 points
	I can't believe I forgot Venezuela! I'm a little surprised at Papua New Guinea. But that's alright. I didn't do too poorly.

	groug:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:21 GMT	50 points
	Guatemala? Really?

	fatbeard:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:26 GMT	7 points
	The US has 43 times more airports than India, and 29 times more than China. Kinda makes you think.

	Supernuke:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:26 GMT	43 points
	Really suprised to see so many south american countries. I guess I was thinking more about population than land area

	LyzzixLethal:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:26 GMT	63 points
	Japan doesn't have at least 255 airports? Weird.

	Rebel33322:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:30 GMT	47 points
	Surprised by all the South American countries! I assumed more European but I guess trains are more popular?

	ForPony:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:35 GMT	24 points
	Shocked at Papua New Guinea. :o

	emh:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:36 GMT	18 points
	So I clicked on the link...turns out its airports AND airfields. I think that should be clarified in the directions. And they have the European Union listed as #3. Which is odd...

	jruiz0327:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:36 GMT	104 points
	14,951 airports in the U.S... you think with that many airports, the lines at them wouldn't be so long.

	kwesta1a:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT	30 points
	What no Uruguay? After seeing all these South American countries, I was aspiring to book the next flight to Montevideo.

	mungar:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:42 GMT	55 points
	Needed one more... kept trying different countries.... was about to type Papua New Guinea, chuckled, and decided not to waste time typing it. D'oh.

	JoeFish:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 04:55 GMT	28 points
	wow. each state has an average of 300 airports. it is absurd. That being said, i live in a town of 6,000, and we have a very tiny airport. And the town of 8,000 15 miles north of us has one... hmm

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	Sneuticles:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 05:08 GMT	66 points
	I did the EXACT same thing as mungar (three entries above). You just know that at the South American Airport Meeting, Peru is getting laughed at 24/7.

	punelle:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 05:10 GMT	42 points
	Pretty mind blowing that Bolivia, Paraguay and Colombia could be in the top ten. They must be taking into consideration all the random landing strips that the drug cartels use in South America...

	nhrafan:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 05:17 GMT	15 points
	@Hope: it was left out because the EU is not a country. The source includes it because the EU consolidates many stats, but the individual countries are the only things that matter for the quiz. Also, I got Papua New Guinea only because i figured, "Hmm, Indonesia's here, maybe it is, too". Lucky guess.

	danielle:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 05:20 GMT	11 points
	ah, if its airports and airfields that makes a lot more sense. for every country. papua new guinea shouldnt have more airports than japan it seems (i did the same as mungar, hahaha :D), but they could certainly have more via airfields.. i live in a town of maybe 400 and there is an airfield here.

	agrigator717:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 05:26 GMT	6 points
	Number 21 really surprised me! I assume the island chains have a lot of airports so tourists can go island hopping.

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	rsdwv5:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 05:35 GMT	14 points
	I believe this was a Red Light Challenge on Cash Cab a while back.

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	RedLIon:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 05:42 GMT	3 points
	A couple were quite surprising. For example, # 12..and even though Iran is bigger than Turkey in area, I would have thought the former would have more airports than Iran, since it's more developed..

	Morbo:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 05:43 GMT	41 points
	I assume the South American countries have so many airfields because of the terrain. It's difficult and expensive to build roads through all those mountains and rain forest, and the ones that are there wind through all of that stuff. It's probably easier to hop into a small plane. Kind of similar to Alaska in that way.

	Niques:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 06:12 GMT	9 points
	I was surprised to not see Turkey and Japan. The Philippines never even crossed my mind - that was a bit of a surprise!

	plixgirl:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 06:25 GMT	6 points
	Papua New Guinea?!

	adal:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 06:29 GMT	16 points
	This seems to be determined by wealth, size and difficulty of terrain. Except these don't really explain Guatemala, do they?

	IHateRegistering:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 06:55 GMT	10 points
	The USA has 30 less airports than 2-13 combined. Incredible.

	Otacon:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 06:56 GMT	40 points
	Guatemala what are you doing with so many airports

	k3lit0:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 07:09 GMT	0 points
	Booooo spelling ecuador wrong and moving on without noticing! :)

	jmarshallg:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 07:15 GMT	17 points
	This really shows how spread out the population of the Americas is. It doesn't hurt that air travel started over here. In Europe it's a lot easier to take a train or something between countries but there's not quite the infrastructure in the western hemisphere to do that. On another note, how the hell did I forget to put Russia?

	jfelce:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 07:22 GMT	11 points
	A lot of things to consider here - size isn't enough to be near the top (Australia, China, India etc) but then again neither is wealth (Japan, Spain etc). Like John says, probably has a lot to do with the alternative infrastructure - Japan ane Europe have very sophisticated rail networks, perhaps more so than the Americas.

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	livfred:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 08:05 GMT	21 points
	Papua New Guinea is all about resource development -- mining, oil, gas...and it has crazy rugged terrain. When "first world" companies come in to develop, it's way cheaper and easier for them to build an airport where they need to go than to try to navigate what are probably non-existent roads.

	davidr:	Jul 16th, 2009 at 08:20 GMT	28 points
	@Dummo: When I submitted this quiz, it had a note attached to it saying something like `Definition: Anything the CIA thinks looks like an airport or airfield from satellite photographs'. It didn't make it into the quiz, though.