- IATA
- GIG
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- SBGL
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 2
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 2,536 km
- 7,471 km from the South pole
Where it sits
22.8°S, 43.3°W puts GIG in the southern hemisphere, 2,536 km from the equator and 7,471 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 598th most northerly, which makes it the 64th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 22.8°N, 136.7°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Naha (OKA) in Japan, still 995 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Santos Dumont (SDU), 14 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
What’s on this page, and what isn’t
Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.
Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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