Anchorage airport (Alaska) is rated best located in the world

Against the snow-frosted backdrop of Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, serving a city of just 300,000 people, sits what might just be the best-located airport in the world today.

While a look at a standard 2-D map of Earth might tell you Alaska is a far-flung outpost, spin the globe in your head and you’ll see that the US state is, quite literally, on the top of the world.

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Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is an unassuming cargo hub, equidistant between New York and Tokyo and, as its website declares, just 9.5 hours flying time from 90% of the industrialized world.

Now that more than 30 countries have banned Russia from their airspaces, with Russia responding in kind — and Ukraine and Belarus airspace also closed — Anchorage could prove strategically important.

You could almost say it’s what this airport was built for.

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