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Sydney Airport

international airport serving Sydney, Australia
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Summary

Sydney Airport is an international airport[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of international airport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,911 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Bayside Council[3], New South Wales[4], City of Rockdale[5]
  • Country: Australia[6]
  • Instance of: airport[7], commercial traffic aerodrome[8]
  • Operator: Sydney Airports Corporation Limited[9]
  • Named after: Sydney[10], Charles Kingsford Smith[11]
  • IATA airport code: SYD[12]
  • ICAO airport code: YSSY[13]
  • Location: Mascot[14]
  • Part of: Sydney[15]
  • Commons category: Sydney Airport[16]
  • Scheduled service destination: Auckland Airport[17], Christchurch International Airport[18], Queenstown Airport[19], Wellington Airport[20], Mildura Airport[21], Avalon Airport[22], Vancouver International Airport[23], Tokyo International Airport[24], Kansai International Airport[25], New Chitose Airport[26]
  • Has part(s): Terminal 1[27], Terminal 2[28], Terminal 3[29]
  • Runway: 07/25[30], 16L/34R[31], 16R/34L[32]
  • Coordinate location: -33.94833333333333, 151.1761111[33]
  • Interchange station: International railway station[34], Domestic railway station[35]
  • Official website: http://www.sydneyairport.com.au[36]
  • Place served by transport hub: Sydney[37]
  • Date of official opening: 1933[38]
  • Different from: Sydney/J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport[39]
  • Elevation above sea level: 21[40]
  • Aerodrome reference point: -33.9461, 151.177[41]
  • Patronage: 9,150,154[42], 6,378,034[43], 2,772,120[44], 9,899,551[45], 6,813,214[46], 3,086,337[47], 10,833,025[48], 7,263,516[49], 3,569,509[50], 12,254,388[51], 4,106,460[52], 8,147,928[53], 10,156,956[54], 4,026,296[55]

Why It Matters

Sydney Airport has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[56] It is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[57]

Related Entities

Australia Qantas Airways Sydney

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [56] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [57] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55346|batch #55346]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 22w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → Terminal 1, Terminal 2, Terminal 3
    Operator → Sydney Airports Corporation Limited
    Located in time zone → —
    Aliases → —
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["Airport", "YSSY"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257634|batch #257634]]"
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