Nonstop flight route between Wenshan, Yunnan, China and New York City, New York, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Wenshan Puzhehei Airport (WNH), Wenshan, Yunnan, China and LaGuardia Airport (LGA), New York City, New York, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,990 miles (or 12,858 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 Wenshan Puzhehei Airport and LaGuardia 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 Wenshan Puzhehei Airport and LaGuardia Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Wenshan Puzhehei Airport (WNH):

• The closest airport to Wenshan Puzhehei Airport (WNH) is Kunming Changshui International Airport (KMG), which is located 138 miles (222 kilometers) NW of WNH.
• The furthest airport from Wenshan Puzhehei Airport (WNH) is Andrés Sabella Gálvez International Airport (former Cerro Moreno International Airport) (ANF), which is nearly antipodal to Wenshan Puzhehei Airport (meaning Wenshan Puzhehei Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Andrés Sabella Gálvez International Airport (former Cerro Moreno International Airport)), and is located 12,106 miles (19,482 kilometers) away in Antofagasta, Chile.
• In addition to being known as "Wenshan Puzhehei Airport", other names for WNH include "文山普者黑机场" and "Wénshān Pǔzhěhēi Jīchǎng".

Facts about LaGuardia Airport (LGA):

• The closest airport to LaGuardia Airport (LGA) is Flushing Airport (closed 1984) (FLU), which is located only 2 miles (3 kilometers) E of LGA.
• Delta will invest $100 million to renovate terminals C and D in LaGuardia, where it will operate a total of 32 gates.
• The Central Terminal Building serves most of LaGuardia's domestic airlines.
• The airport was dedicated on October 15, 1939, as the New York Municipal Airport and opened for business on December 2 of that year.
• On August 12, 2009, Delta Air Lines and US Airways announced a landing slot and terminal swap in separate press releases.
• Because of LaGuardia Airport's relatively low elevation of 21 feet, planes can take off or land at LaGuardia 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.
• LaGuardia has also been criticized for some of its outdated facilities.
• LaGuardia Airport (LGA) has 2 runways.
• The New York City metropolitan area's JFK International, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty International airports combine to create the largest airport system in the United States, second in the world in terms of passenger traffic, and first in the world in terms of total flight operations.
• Newark Airport began renovations, but could not keep up with the new Queens airport, which TIME called "the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world." Even before the project was completed LaGuardia had won commitments from the five largest airlines that they would begin using the new field as soon as it opened.
• The furthest airport from LaGuardia Airport (LGA) is Margaret River Airport (MGV), which is located 11,754 miles (18,917 kilometers) away in Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia.