China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is between 3,000-5,000 meters above sea level, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters, so it is called the "roof of the world" and "the third pole", which is the largest plateau in China and the highest in the world. The Bolivian Plateau in South America is second only to the Tibetan Plateau in terms of elevation, with an average altitude of 3,800 meters. Six of the world's 10 highest airports are located in our country. However, because China's plateau airport is compared with the Bolivian plateau in South America, the climate, environment, topography, and landform are complex and harsh, so these plateau airports will surprise everyone, and the surrounding area of China's plateau airport is basically deserted, but other plateau airports are built next to towns and cities, and they are not desolate.
1. Daocheng Yading Airport
Daocheng Yading Airport, located in Daocheng County, Ganzi, Sichuan, is a military-civilian joint airport, with a grade of 4C, which is the highest airport in the world, with an altitude of 4411 meters. The airport has a terminal and a runway.
2. Qamdo Bangda Airport
Qamdo Bangda Airport is located in Basu County, Qamdo, is a military-civilian airport, with a grade of 4C, an altitude of 4334 meters, and an airport with a terminal and a runway.
3. Kangding Airport
Kangding Airport is located in Kangding, Sichuan, about 38 kilometers away from the city, is a civil airport, the grade is 4C, the altitude is 4280 meters, is the world's third highest altitude airport.
4. Ali Kunsha Airport
Kunsha Airport is located in Kunsha on the Shiquan River in the Ali region, which is a military-civilian airport, with a grade of 4D and an altitude of 4,274 meters, and the airport has a terminal and a runway.
5. La Paz International Airport
La Paz is the capital of Bolivia, and its airport, La Paz International Airport, is one of the highest in the world, with an altitude of 4,061 meters above sea level. The airport has a terminal building, a concrete runway, and a lawn runway.
6. Uniyu Airport
Located in the province of Potosí in the Bolivian Altiplano, Uniyu Airport is a civilian-military airport at an altitude of about 3,954 meters above sea level. Uniyu is a ** and mining center, with an international railway hub and a branch line to Nantong Argentina. Among them, the Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt lake in the world, where the blue sky and the endless white salt grains converge on the horizon, so it is known as the "Sky Realm" and "Sky City".
7. Colonel Nicholas Rojas Airport
Colonel Nicolás Rojas Airport, in the city of Potosí, in the province of Potosí in southwestern Bolivia, was once a famous silver mine, known as the "silver capital", and at its peak, its ** production accounted for half of the world's production. The Colonel Nicholas Rojas Airport is located northeast of Potosi, at an altitude of about 3,935 meters above sea level.
8. Yushu Batang Airport
Yushu Batang Airport is located in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, with an altitude of 3,900 meters above sea level, and has a 4-level airport rating with a terminal and a runway.
9. Juliaca International Airport
Juliaca Airport, also known as Inca Manco Capac International Airport (Gamanco Capac was the legendary founding monarch of the Inca in ancient South America), is a civil airport located in the city of Juliaca, Puno region, southern Peru, with an altitude of 3,826 meters above sea level, and one of the longest runways in Latin America (4,200 meters).
10 Golo Maqin Airport
Located in Maqin County, Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, Guoluo Maqin Airport is a civil transport airport with a terminal and a runway with a 4C grade and an altitude of 3,787 meters.