Nonstop flight route between Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Paris, France:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between N'djili Airport (FIH), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG), Paris, France would travel a Great Circle distance of 3,770 miles (or 6,067 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 N'djili Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, 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 N'djili Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about N'djili Airport (FIH):

• Terminal building at Kinshasa International Airport
• The furthest airport from N'djili Airport (FIH) is Cassidy International Airport (CXI), which is located 11,913 miles (19,172 kilometers) away in Christmas Island, Kiribati.
• N'Djili airport at night
• N'djili Airport (FIH) currently has only 1 runway.
• N'djili Airport handled 672,347 passengers last year.
• In addition to being known as "N'djili Airport", another name for FIH is "Aéroport de N'djili".
• The closest airport to N'djili Airport (FIH) is Maya–Maya Airport (BZV), which is located only 16 miles (26 kilometers) NW of FIH.
• The airport has barely been maintained or upgraded and is still using the infrastructure built by the Belgians during the colonial era.

Facts about Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG):

• In 2013, the airport handled 62,052,917 passengers and 497,763 aircraft movements, making it the world's eighth busiest airport and Europe's second busiest airport in passengers served.
• Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) has 4 runways.
• Because of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's relatively low elevation of 392 feet, planes can take off or land at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
• On 17 March 2005, ADP decided to tear down and rebuild the whole part of Terminal 2E of which a section had collapsed, at a cost of approximately €100 million.
• Andreu initially had envisaged building several terminals on this model.
• The furthest airport from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) is Chatham Islands (CHT), which is nearly antipodal to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (meaning Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Chatham Islands), and is located 12,074 miles (19,432 kilometers) away in Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.
• Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport handled 62,052,917 passengers last year.
• A Bus VEA Disneyland shuttle departs from the three Terminals.
• Terminal 3 consists of separate buildings for both arrivals and departures.
• The closest airport to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) is Paris–Le Bourget Airport (LBG), which is located only 6 miles (9 kilometers) WSW of CDG.
• In addition to being known as "Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport", other names for CDG include "Aéroport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle" and "Roissy Airport".