Nonstop flight route between Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil and Okinawa Prefecture, Japan:

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A direct, nonstop flight between Tancredo Thomas de Faria Airport (GPB), Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil and Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō (DNA), Okinawa Prefecture, Japan would travel a Great Circle distance of 12,357 miles (or 19,887 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 Tancredo Thomas de Faria 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 Tancredo Thomas de Faria 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 GPB and DNA makes them almost exactly antipodal (the exact opposite side of the world) to each other. Nonstop flights between Tancredo Thomas de Faria 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 GPB and DNA are slim to none. However, you'll still be able to get from Guarapuava, Paraná, 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 GPB and DNA!

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Facts about Tancredo Thomas de Faria Airport (GPB):

• In addition to being known as "Tancredo Thomas de Faria Airport", another name for GPB is "Aeroporto Tancredo Thomas de Faria".
• Tancredo Thomas de Faria Airport handled 916 passengers last year.
• Tancredo Thomas de Faria Airport (GPB) currently has only 1 runway.
• Currently no scheduled flights operate at this airport.
• The closest airport to Tancredo Thomas de Faria Airport (GPB) is José Cleto Airport (QVB), which is located 65 miles (104 kilometers) SSE of GPB.
• The furthest airport from Tancredo Thomas de Faria Airport (GPB) is Naha Airport (OKA), which is nearly antipodal to Tancredo Thomas de Faria Airport (meaning Tancredo Thomas de Faria Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Naha Airport), and is located 12,361 miles (19,893 kilometers) away in 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 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 18th Wing is the host unit at Kadena AB.
• 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.
• Since November 1954, the 18th Wing under various designations has been the main United States Air Force operational unit at Kadena.
• Twentieth Air Force became the command and control organization for Kadena on 16 May 1949.
• The surrender of Japanese forces in the Ryukyu Islands came on 7 September.
• What the Americans captured was a 4,600 feet strip of badly-damaged coral runway.
• In November 2006, the U.S.