MAKHSSM

Malakal International Airport

Malakal, South Sudan · Africa

Africa Africa/Juba

1runway

2,000 mLongest runway

Malakal Airport (IATA: MAK, ICAO: HSSM) is an airport serving Malakal, a city in Malakal County in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan. The airport is located just north of the city's central business district, adjacent to the main campus of Upper Nile University. Malakal is near the international border with the Republic of Sudan and the border with Ethiopia. Malakal is the smaller of two international airports in South Sudan. The largest, Juba International Airport, lies approximately 521 kilometres (281 NM) to the south in the capital city of Juba. As part of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), the airport was a major staging point for United Nation operations to South Sudan and will continue to do so under the new United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) mandate.

Location

9.559°N, 31.652°E · 393 m s. n. m. (1.291 ft)

General data

CountrySouth Sudan

CityMalakal

IATA codeMAK

ICAO codeHSSM

Coordinates9.559°N, 31.652°E

Elevation393 m s. n. m. (1.291 ft)

Time zoneAfrica/Juba

Runways1

Longest runway2,000 m

Runways · 1

04/22

Length2,000 m6,562 ft

Width38 m125 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 1

Flight information

118.200

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Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Malakal International Airport (MAK). Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MAK

MLA

“Malakal International Airport (MAK).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MAK. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_mak,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Malakal International Airport (MAK)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MAK},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/MAK}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-24},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-24}
}

Wikipedia

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