| Saulia Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Saulia, Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,870 ft / 570 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 1°31′45″S26°32′05″E / 1.52917°S 26.53472°E Coordinates: 1°31′45″S26°32′05″E / 1.52917°S 26.53472°E | ||||||||||
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  FZOR Location of the airport in Democratic Republic of the Congo | |||||||||||
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Saulia Airport( ICAO : FZOR) is an airstrip serving Saulia, a village in the Maniema Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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.
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.
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The runway is on a slight ridge 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) west of Saulia.
