There are between 193 and 207 countries in the world – depending on how you count. Interestingly, five of them do not have an airport. Whether a country has an airport or not depends on several criteria.
The first limiting factor is geography. All the countries on the list are fairly small in terms of area—and airports require long runways that are flat; if the country is located in a mountainous region, there may not be an area long and flat enough to prepare for aircraft take-offs and landings. Other countries on the list are located in densely populated areas where there is simply not enough space available to build an…
