Nonstop flight route between Agana, Guam and Cheong ju, South Korea:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Andersen Air Force Base (UAM), Agana, Guam and Cheongju International Airport (CJJ), Cheong ju, South Korea would travel a Great Circle distance of 1,927 miles (or 3,102 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 relatively short distance between Andersen Air Force Base and Cheongju International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely still appears to be a straight line.

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Facts about Andersen Air Force Base (UAM):

• Andersen Air Force Base's origins begin on 7 December 1941 when Guam was attacked by the armed forces of Imperial Japan in the Battle of Guam three hours after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
• The furthest airport from Andersen Air Force Base (UAM) is Salvador-Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (2 de Julho) (SSA), which is nearly antipodal to Andersen Air Force Base (meaning Andersen Air Force Base is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Salvador-Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (2 de Julho)), and is located 12,214 miles (19,656 kilometers) away in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
• Andersen Air Force Base was established on 3 December 1944 and is named for Brigadier General James Roy Andersen.
• The 3rd Air Division was activated on 18 June in its place, its object being control of all SAC units in the Far East.
• In 1951, the Strategic Air Command chose several overseas bases to support rotational unit deployments of its bombers from stateside bases, starting with B-29 Superfortress units and later including Convair B-36, B-47 Stratojet, B-50 Superfortress bombers, and KB-29 refueling tankers.
• The closest airport to Andersen Air Force Base (UAM) is Guam International Airport (GUM), which is located only 11 miles (17 kilometers) SW of UAM.
• After the war, B-29s from North Field dropped food and supplies to Allied prisoners and participated in several show-of-force missions over Japan.
• Andersen saw an end to its role in rotational duties when the B-47 was phased out and replaced by the B-52 Stratofortress.
• The frequent bombings resulted in a cease-fire in Vietnam, but the B-52s continued to fly missions over Cambodia and Laos until those were halted on 15 August 1973.

Facts about Cheongju International Airport (CJJ):

• The furthest airport from Cheongju International Airport (CJJ) is Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A. Curbelo International Airport (PDP), which is nearly antipodal to Cheongju International Airport (meaning Cheongju International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Capitán de Corbeta Carlos A. Curbelo International Airport), and is located 12,243 miles (19,703 kilometers) away in Maldonado/Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay.
• The closest airport to Cheongju International Airport (CJJ) is Yecheon Air Base (YEC), which is located 48 miles (77 kilometers) E of CJJ.
• Cheongju International Airport (CJJ) has 2 runways.
• Cheongju International Airport handled 1,032,484 passengers last year.
• Because of Cheongju International Airport's relatively low elevation of 191 feet, planes can take off or land at Cheongju International 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.
• In addition to being known as "Cheongju International Airport", other names for CJJ include "청주국제공항 淸州國際空港", "Cheongju Gukje Gonghang" and "Ch'ŏngju Kukche Konghang".