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Table 13 Core airports of the Africa-Middle East-Southern Asia component (26)

From: Revealing the component structure of the world air transportation network

Airport

City

Country

Core degree

Local rank

National rank

Dubai

Dubai

United Arab Emirates

22

1

1

King Abdulaziz

Jeddah

Saudi Arabia

23

2

2

Indira Gandhi

Delhi

India

19

3

1

Chhatrapati Shivaji

Mumbai

India

20

4

2

Sharjah

Sharjah

United Arab Emirates

23

6

2

King Khaled

Riyadh

Saudi Arabia

24

7

2

Hamad

Doha

Qatar

19

9

1

Muscat

Muscat

Oman

25

10

1

Kuwait

Kuwait

Kuwait

22

11

1

King Fahd

Dammam

Saudi Arabia

24

12

3

Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates

23

13

3

Cairo

Cairo

Egypt

14

14

1

Bahrain

Bahrain

Bahrain

22

15

1

Kempegowda

Bangalore

India

16

17

3

Queen Alia

Amman

Jordan

15

20

1

Chennai

Madras

India

18

21

4

Jinnah

Karachi

Pakistan

14

22

1

Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz

Madinah

Saudi Arabia

16

24

3

Beirut Rafic Hariri

Beirut

Lebanon

13

25

1

Rajiv Gandhi

Hyderabad

India

13

26

6

Bandaranaike Colombo

Colombo

Sri Lanka

17

27

1

Benazir Bhutto

Islamabad

Pakistan

13

28

2

Alama Iqbal

Lahore

Pakistan

14

33

3

Cochin

Kochi

India

17

34

7

Calicut

Calicut

India

14

37

8

Trivandrum

Trivandrum

India

14

38

9

Addis Ababa Bole

Addis Ababa

Ethiopia

–

5

1

Jomo Kenyatta

Nairobi

Kenya

–

8

2

Mehrabad

Teheran

Iran

–

16

1

Mashhad

Mashhad

Iran

–

18

2

Murtala Muhammed

Lagos

Nigeria

–

19

1

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Kolkata

India

–

23

5

  1. Airports not in the top 26 regional hubs are in bold. The core degree of a node is its number of links in the maximum k-core. Local rank is the rank in the large local component. National rank is the airport rank in its country. Airports in the top 26 regional hubs and not in the k-core are in bolditalic