Airports need a lot of space for people and aircraft to move around. As travelers, we usually judge an airport by its cover — that is, the small part of it that we experience as customers. But there is a lot more to airports than meets the eye. So much so that most people wouldn’t be able to guess the biggest airports in the world.
To no one’s surprise, the majority are in the United States, a country notoriously obsessed with making everything gigantic. (We’re sure Freud would have had some interesting things to say about this.) But airports all over the planet also make the list.
The No. 1 airport is so ridiculously large that it occupies a land area almost equivalent to the size of New York City.
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