Beijing Airport

China

DATES: 2014-2019  |  SATELLITE: SENTINEL 2  |  CATEGORY: URBAN SPRAWL

The Beijing Daxing International Airport is the largest single-building airport infrastructure in the world. Construction began in December 2014 and ended in January 2019. In just over 4 years, the Chinese were capable of erecting one of the largest airports in the world, both in size and number of passengers.

Aeroport Beijing Daxing on February 27th 2017 (left) and December 18th 2020 (right). Band combination in natural color (4-3-2). CC BY 4.0 Sentinel Hub EO Browser.

The following image shows how the farmland outside Beijing has been converted into runways arranged around the airport in a giant star visible from space.

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