Can someone help me with finding the milage from one city to another country?

Question

My son's school is doing a program called "Read to Iraq". They need to know how many miles it will be from Atlanta, GA to Baghdad, Iraq. It needs to be straight through. No going from Atlanta to NY and then to Germany or anything like that. Can some one tell me the miles or show me a website that I can get this information from?

Answer 1

6728.91 miles
(see the web site below)

Answer 2

Hi Mom! Its quite simple. Take a ruler and a world map that is in one piece of paper or whatever material, what's important is that the world is not represented in two pages because then you will have problems measuring. Probably on the bottom right corner of the map you will have the legend explaining symbols used and scale of map. The scale will be e.g. 1/10.000 mm/ Km or whatever, this means that every millimeter centimeter (or inches per mile maybe in Anglo-Saxon measures) represents 10.000 kilometers (or miles in A-S measures). So you measure with the ruler the straightest line from Atlanta to Baghdad and the resulting measur you get you multiply by 10.000 or whatever is the scale indicated in your map and that will give you another result telling you that from Atlanta to Baghdad there are 10.000.0000.000 inches / millimeters / centimeters so you must pass that into miles or kilometers. To do that you take your obtained number in centimeters or inches and divide by for example the value of inches in one mile. If you are not sure if your map represents inches or millimeters or centimeters then do both.
Best regards
SF

Answer 3

Do not use a map. It is only a projection and very inaccurate. Use a globe.
To find the distance between any two points in the world via the Great Circle (as the crow flies), simply take a string and hold it thumb and finger at each of the two points, then pull it tight. Now take this string that you are holding tight by the two points and lower it to the equator where the degrees are marked. Hold one end at zero and determine how many degrees at the equator the string is long between the two points that you are holding. Now multiply those number of degrees at the equator by 69.17 and you will have the number of miles between the two points.
This is because the length of a degree of latitude on the Earth's surface is about 69 miles, and is fairly constant because lines of latitude are all parallel and equally distant . It is a different story with longitude lines, as they gradually converge toward the poles.
TRY IT. HOLD ONE END OF THE STRING ON CHICAGO AND ONE ON TOKYO. NOW MEASURE THE NUMBER OF DEGREES AT THE EQUATOR BETWEEN THOSE TWO POINTS . IT WILL BE ABOUT 89 DEGREES. MULTIPLYING BY 69.17 (miles per degree at the equator) WILL GIVE YOU 6,156 miles.

Answer 4

Travel Route:
Hartsfield Intl Arpt, Atlanta, GA (ATL) to
Al Muthana Arpt, Baghdad, IQ (BGW)
One Way Distances:
Distance 6740 miles 10800 km

Answer 5

Neeta gave you great website for calculating distance between cities. I just want to give you other websites that you might find useful.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distanceresult.html?p1=25&p2=27

Using this site, the distance is from Atlanta to Baghdad is 6,752 miles. The great features of this website is that you do not have to know airport codes (ATL - Atlanta, SDA - Baghdad airport) for cities to find distances and it gives local time at both locations.

The other website is the Great Circle Mapper which allows you to have multiple departing airports and mulitple arrival airports so you can compare distances. You can also type in the city name and it will give you options of airports in that city.

The great circle distance from Atlanta-Hartsfield airport (ATL) to downtown Baghdad is 6,755 miles while the distance from ATL to Baghdad Int'l airport (SDA) is 6,752 miles.

http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=ATL-BGW%0D%0Aatl-sda%0D%0A&RANGE=&PATH-COLOR=red&PATH-UNITS=mi&SPEED-GROUND=&SPEED-UNITS=kts&RANGE-STYLE=best&RANGE-COLOR=navy&MAP-STYLE=

Hope this helps.