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Charles de gaulle airport map

Paris cdg airport map. Charles de gaulle airport map (Île-de-France - France) to print. Charles de gaulle airport map (Île-de-France - France) to download. The planning and construction phase of what was known then as Aéroport de Paris Nord (Paris North Airport) began in 1966. On 8 March 1974 the airport, renamed Charles de Gaulle Airport, began service as its shown in charles de gaulle airport map. Terminal 1 of charles de gaulle airport was built in an avant-garde design of a ten-floors-high circular building surrounded by seven satellite buildings, each with four gates. The main architect was Paul Andreu, who was also in charge of the extensions during the following decades.

Paris cdg airport map

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Charles de Gaulle (CGD) is the most important airport of Paris and the second largest in Europe if you count the number of passengers that fly to or from it (see charles de gaulle airport map). The largest airport in Europe is Heathrow in London. Charles de Gaulle (CDG) is the major international airport in Paris and the second largest in numbers of passengers in Europe after Heathrow Airport (London).
 
Charles de gaulle airport is named after Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), leader of the Free French Forces and founder of the French Fifth Republic. Charles de gaulle airport as its mentioned in the map is located within portions of several communes, 25 km (16 mi) to the northeast of Paris. The charles de gaulle airport serves as the principal hub for Air France. In 2011, the airport handled 60,970,551 passengers and 514,059 aircraft movements
 
Charles de Gaulle Airport extends over 32.38 km2 (12.50 sq mi) of land as you can see in charles de gaulle airport map. The choice of this vast area of charles de gaulle airport was made based on the limited number of potential relocations and expropriations and the possibility to further expand the airport in the future. Charles de gaulle airport straddles three départements and six communes