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Map Of The Nearest Major U.S. City To Europe, Asia, Africa & Australia

June 25, 2018 3 Comments

ap Of The Nearest Major U.S. City To Europe, Asia, Africa & Australia

Map created by reddit user delugetheory

The map above shows the nearest major US city to Europe, Asia, Africa & Australia.

  • Boston is the closet major city to all of Europe, the Middle East and almost all of Africa.
  • Seattle is the closest city to the Asian part of Russia, Eastern China, Mongolia and Northern India.
  • Honolulu is the closest to most of China, Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan and Australia.
  • Miami is the closest to islands in the South Atlantic Ocean and the very Southern tip of South Africa.

Major US city was defined as one of:

… the 100 largest metros (since municipal populations are so variable, and often give no indication of the actual “majorness” of a city; for example the municipality of Jacksonville, Florida, is larger than the municipality of San Francisco, while San Francisco is obviously a far larger metro and more “major” city).

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Comments

  1. Rufus says

    June 30, 2019 at 5:27 pm

    Bangalore seems sort of equidistant to Boston, Seattle and Honolulu!! Wow!!!

    Reply
  2. DUH says

    July 21, 2019 at 2:30 pm

    lame – show the miles idiots

    Reply
  3. Carl S says

    November 2, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    Seattle closest to “Eastern China.” I think they mean “Western China.”

    Reply

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