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

March 3, 2023 11 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!!!

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    • Bob says

      April 2, 2022 at 3:30 pm

      More like Mysore, India is equidistant

      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.”

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    • MrNoodleBrain says

      January 4, 2021 at 12:47 am

      Look at the map, moron. Eastern is correct.

      Reply
      • Meat dumpster says

        August 31, 2021 at 10:54 pm

        China isn’t even on this map. It just had Boston, Miami, Seatle and Honolulu. Whose the dummy now?

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      • Bob says

        April 2, 2022 at 3:29 pm

        Ummmm no, the Seattle portion is covering WESTERN China, West is left, East is right smh

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  4. Dae says

    August 2, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    Manchester NH (closer to Europe than Boston) and Anchorage AK (closed to Asia than Seattle): am I a joke to you

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    • ... says

      June 13, 2022 at 10:06 am

      Neither of those cities fit the criteria for this map. A major US city as defined by the author is any city whose metropolitan area is one of the 100 largest in the US. The closest you got to the criteria was Anchorage, which is still roughly 200,000 people short of making the top 100.

      Reply
  5. bif says

    August 31, 2021 at 11:39 pm

    YOU look at the map, moron. It clearly shows western China is closest to Seattle.

    Reply
  6. Debora says

    August 4, 2022 at 8:18 pm

    It doesn’t matter who’s the moron if China sends nuclear weapons were are all going to fry it doesn’t matter which one. is the moron or which one is the brain you both burn the same …

    Reply

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