Size of the ten largest airports worldwide in 2015, in hectares

This statistic shows the size of the world's largest airports, as of 2015. Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris covered an area of 3,200 hectares, ranking it in fifth place in terms of land mass, however when considering the passenger volumes of airports worldwide, CDG fell somewhat lower down the list. Saudi Arabia's King Fahr International airport covered by far the largest land area, ten times the size of the third biggest Airport in the ranking, Dallas/Fort Worth International in the USA. The remaining nine airports from this ranking combined do not cover an area as big as the King Fahr International airport in Saudi Arabia does.
The airport covering the smallest land area of the airports in this ranking is the Beijing Capital International in China. Only 220 hectares more land area is covered by the Cairo International Airport in Egypt. More than 11,000 hectare more land is covered by the Denver International Airport in the USA, the second biggest airport in this ranking. The biggest European Airport in 2015 was the Charles de Gaulle airport in France, covering 3.200 hectares of land area.