When people think of the world's best-connected airport, they might think of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson, the world's busiest airport, or maybe Doha's Hamad International, the world's best airport. Actually, new data has revealed that the world's best-connected airport is, in fact, Istanbul Airport in Turkey.

IGA Istanbul Airport, or IST, is the main airport serving Turkey including the 15.8 million people that live in the Istanbul area. The airport opened in 2018 and has quickly become extremely busy, ranking as the world's seventh-busiest airport in 2023. It served a total of 76 million people last year, most of which were flying on the country's own Turkish Airlines.

The airport's perfect location between the western and eastern worlds allow it to provide flights to 309 different destinations, the most of any airport. Turkish Airlines is also the world's best-connected airline, flying to 130 of the world's 195 countries across every continent except Antarctica.

Here is the full list of the top ten best-connected airports:

1. Istanbul Airport (309 destinations)

2. Frankfurt Airport (296 destinations)

3. Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (282 destinations)

4. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (270 destinations)

4. Chicago O’Hare International Aiport (270 destinations)

5. Dubai International Airport (269 destinations)

6. Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (261 destinations)

7. Shanghai Pudong International Airport (243 destinations)

8. Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (237 destinations)

9. Rome Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino Airport (234 destinations)

10. Denver International Airport (229 destinations)