Nonstop flight route between Minot, North Dakota, United States and Sucre, Bolivia:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Minot Air Force Base (MIB), Minot, North Dakota, United States and Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport (SRE), Sucre, Bolivia would travel a Great Circle distance of 5,162 miles (or 8,308 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 Minot Air Force Base and Juana Azurduy de Padilla International 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 Minot Air Force Base and Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Minot Air Force Base (MIB):

• The 810th Strategic Aerospace Division was inactivated 30 June 1971.
• On 30 August 2007, a B-52 took off from Minot AFB carrying six cruise missiles with W-80 nuclear warheads to Barksdale AFB in northwest Louisiana.
• A Semi Automatic Ground Environment facility was built and activated in June 1961.
• The furthest airport from Minot Air Force Base (MIB) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 10,320 miles (16,609 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.
• In addition to being known as "Minot Air Force Base", another name for MIB is "Minot AFB".
• The closest airport to Minot Air Force Base (MIB) is Minot International Airport (MOT), which is located only 12 miles (19 kilometers) SSE of MIB.
• Command of Minot AFB passed from Air Defense Command to SAC in July 1962 as the base's primary mission changed from air defense to strategic deterrence.

Facts about Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport (SRE):

• The closest airport to Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport (SRE) is Jorge Wilstermann International Airport (CBB), which is located 124 miles (200 kilometers) NNW of SRE.
• Though Sucre is Bolivia's constitutional capital city, Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport is not the largest airport in the country.
• In addition to being known as "Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport", another name for SRE is "Aeropuerto Internacional Juana Azurduy de Padilla".
• The furthest airport from Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport (SRE) is Zhuhai Jinwan Airport (ZUH), which is nearly antipodal to Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport (meaning Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Zhuhai Jinwan Airport), and is located 12,212 miles (19,654 kilometers) away in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.
• Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport (SRE) currently has only 1 runway.
• The only runway at Juana Azurduy de Padilla is 9400 feet in length, and is at an altitude of 9,528 feet.
• Because of Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport's high elevation of 9,527 feet, planes must typically fly at a faster airspeed in order to takeoff or land at SRE. Combined with a high temperature, this could make SRE a "Hot & High" airport, where the air density is lower than it would otherwise be at sea level.