Nonstop flight route between Bondoukou, Côte d'Ivoire and Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Soko Airport (BDK), Bondoukou, Côte d'Ivoire and Salgado Filho International Airport (POA), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil would travel a Great Circle distance of 4,148 miles (or 6,675 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 Soko Airport and Salgado Filho 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 Soko Airport and Salgado Filho 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 Soko Airport (BDK):

• Soko Airport (BDK) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Soko Airport (BDK) is Sunyani Airport (NYI), which is located 54 miles (87 kilometers) SSE of BDK.
• The furthest airport from Soko Airport (BDK) is Funafuti International Airport (FUN), which is nearly antipodal to Soko Airport (meaning Soko Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Funafuti International Airport), and is located 12,298 miles (19,792 kilometers) away in Funafuti, Tuvalu.

Facts about Salgado Filho International Airport (POA):

• In addition to being known as "Salgado Filho International Airport", another name for POA is "Aeroporto Internacional Salgado Filho".
• However, in order to cope with the increasing passenger traffic at the airport, on September 8, 2010 a decision was made to renovate Terminal 2 and bring it back into passenger use.
• The closest airport to Salgado Filho International Airport (POA) is Diomício Freitas/Forquilhinha Airport (CCM), which is located 137 miles (221 kilometers) NE of POA.
• Salgado Filho International Airport (POA) currently has only 1 runway.
• People mover connects the International Airport to the Porto Alegre Metro Airport Station since August 10, 2013.
• The furthest airport from Salgado Filho International Airport (POA) is Yakushima Airport (KUM), which is nearly antipodal to Salgado Filho International Airport (meaning Salgado Filho International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Yakushima Airport), and is located 12,324 miles (19,834 kilometers) away in Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
• Because of Salgado Filho International Airport's relatively low elevation of 11 feet, planes can take off or land at Salgado Filho 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.
• On October 12, 1951, São João Federal Airport was renamed Salgado Filho Airport, after the Senator and Minister who died the year before on a crash involving a SAVAG aircraft that departed from Porto Alegre.