Wuhan Tianhe International Airport 武汉天河国际机场 | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Wuhan Tianhe International Airport Co. Ltd. | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Wuhan | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Huangpi District, Wuhan, Hubei, China | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | 15 April 1995 | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 34 m / 112 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°47′01″N 114°12′29″E / 30.78361°N 114.20806°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||
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  WUH/ZHHH Location in Hubei  WUH/ZHHH Location in China | |||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 武汉天河国际机场 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 武漢天河國際機場 | ||||||
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Wuhan Tianhe International Airport (IATA: WUH, ICAO: ZHHH) is an international airport serving Wuhan, the capital of South Central China’s Hubei province. It was opened on 15 April 1995, replacing the old Wuhan Wangjiadun Airport and Nanhu Airport as the major airport of Wuhan.[1][2] The airport is located in Wuhan's suburban Huangpi District, around 26 km (16 mi) to the north of Wuhan city center.
It is the busiest airport in central China as it is geographically located in the centre of China's airline route network. The airport served 20,772,000 passengers in 2016, making it the 14th busiest airport by passenger traffic in China. The airport is a focus city for Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines. The airport has flights to international destinations such as New York City, San Francisco, Tokyo, Rome, Istanbul, Dubai, Sydney, Bali, Bangkok, Moscow, Osaka, Seoul, and Singapore. The name Tianhe (天河) can be literally translated as "Sky River"; Tianhe is also one of the names for the Milky Way in ancient Chinese.[3]
Since 2019, passengers from 53 countries such as the EU countries, Japan, South Korea, Russia, the U.S., when transiting to a third country, can enter China from this airport without a Chinese visa for up to 144 hours.[4][5]
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- ^ "2019年1月1日起武汉将实施外国人144小时过境免签". Hubei Daily. Archived from the original on 23 February 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ "厦门青岛武汉成都昆明五个城市将实施外国人144小时过境免签政策". National Immigration Administration of China. Retrieved 23 February 2019.