Nonstop flight route between Dourados, Minas Gerais, Brazil and Okinawa Prefecture, Japan:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport (DOU), Dourados, Minas Gerais, Brazil and Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō (DNA), Okinawa Prefecture, Japan would travel a Great Circle distance of 12,104 miles (or 19,479 kilometers).

A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport and Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.

Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport and Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

The distance between DOU and DNA makes them almost exactly antipodal (the exact opposite side of the world) to each other. Nonstop flights between Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport and Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō would be very impractical for the airlines, because only a lightly loaded Boeing 777-200LR would be able to make the trip. Since airlines need to be able to take as many people and cargo as possible in order to make a profit, the odds of ever seeing a nonstop flight between DOU and DNA are slim to none. However, you'll still be able to get from Dourados, Minas Gerais, Brazil and Okinawa Prefecture, Japan by taking some connecting flights!

Did you know that one full circling of the Earth (measuring from the equator) is about 24,901.5 miles (or 40,075 kilometers), which means if you were 12,450 miles from any given point on the planet, the distance back to your starting point would be about the same -- in any direction! The same can be said for a nonstop flight between DOU and DNA!

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Facts about Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport (DOU):

• In addition to being known as "Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport", other names for DOU include "Aeroporto Francisco de Matos Pereira" and "SBDO".
• The closest airport to Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport (DOU) is Ponta Porã International Airport (PMG), which is located 55 miles (89 kilometers) WSW of DOU.
• Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport (DOU) currently has only 1 runway.
• The furthest airport from Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport (DOU) is Hateruma Airport (HTR), which is nearly antipodal to Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport (meaning Francisco de Matos Pereira Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Hateruma Airport), and is located 12,285 miles (19,771 kilometers) away in Hateruma, Okinawa, Japan.

Facts about Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō (DNA):

• In addition to being known as "Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō", another name for DNA is "Kadena AFB".
• The closest airport to Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō (DNA) is Naha Airport (OKA), which is located only 13 miles (21 kilometers) SW of DNA.
• The furthest airport from Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō (DNA) is Paulo Abdala Airport (FBE), which is nearly antipodal to Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō (meaning Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Paulo Abdala Airport), and is located 12,381 miles (19,926 kilometers) away in Francisco Beltrao, Paraná, Brazil.
• The designation of the wing changed on 1 October 1991 to the 18th Wing with the implementation of the Objective Wing concept.
• What the Americans captured was a 4,600 feet strip of badly-damaged coral runway.
• At the end of the Eisenhower presidency, around 1,700 nuclear weapons were deployed on shore in the Pacific, 800 of which were at Kadena Air Base.
• The mission of NAVCOMM Det Okinawa is to provide communications support for SEVENTH Fleet and supporting units, U.S.