| Rutshuru Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Rutshuru | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 3,707 ft / 1,130 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 1°09′45″S29°25′47″E / 1.16250°S 29.42972°E Coordinates: 1°09′45″S29°25′47″E / 1.16250°S 29.42972°E | ||||||||||
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  FZNC Location of the airport in Democratic Republic of the Congo | |||||||||||
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Rutshuru Airport( ICAO : FZNC) is an airport serving the town of Rutshuru in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The runway is 3 kilometres (2 mi) northwest of Rutshuru in the town of Kiwanja. [1]
The ICAOairport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators, are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning.
Rutshuru, sometimes called Rushuru, is a town located in the North Kivu province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is headquarters of an administrative district, the Rutshuru Territory. The town lies in the western branch of the Albertine Rift between Lakes Edward and Kivu. The Ugandan border is 15 km east and the Rwandan border is 30 km south-east. Lava flows from the Nyamuragira volcano, 40 km south-west, have come within 7 km of the town in recent years.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as DR Congo, the DRC, DROC, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa. It is sometimes anachronistically referred to by its former name of Zaire, which was its official name between 1971 and 1997. It is, by area, the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa, and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of over 78 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populated officially Francophone country, the fourth-most-populated country in Africa, and the 16th-most-populated country in the world.
