Landing area is an official designation of specialized Earth surface region by the international standard publication describing
airfields and
airports to aviators, the
Aeronautical Information Publication. As such, it is directly translated into dozens of languages, wherever an
AIP publication exists, which is one for every aviation-regulating country of the world. It is the most salient description of the
logistics real estate which enable planes or helicopters or other aircraft to come and go. It also has other meanings, which extend beyond aviation concepts and airport terminology, all of them military in kind.