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1. Paris & Berlin
1400 km
880 km
2750 km
550 km
2. Russia & USA (excluding island territories - closest possible distance)
The eastern most point of Russia and Alaska are very close to each other in the North Pacific
14000 km
80 km
9500 km
6400 km
3. Sun & Earth
some of you may know the speed of light - 300,000 km/s and that light takes about 8 minutes for light to reach earth. With these numbers and some rough estimates the distance can be found.
5 billion km
2 million km
150 million km
2 trillion km
4. Earth & Moon
less than you thought?
95,000 km
1 million km
380,000 km
5 million km
5. Equator & North Pole
this would be a quarter of the earths circumference
10,000 km
40,000 km
970 km
18,000 km
6. Bangkok & New Delhi
480 km
9,500 km
3,000 km
17 km
7. two bonded Atoms
100 pico meters are 0.1 nano meters
4 meters
100 pico meters
0,1 mm
10 nano meters
8. the Milky Way & the Andromeda Galaxy (or our galaxy & the closest major galaxy)
13.8 billion years is the age of the universe if you thought that number sounds familiar. the diameter of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years. 50 light years is therefore very small on this scale.
13.8 billion light years
2.5 million light years
890,000 km
50 light years
9. the place where the first car was built & the place where the telegraph was invented)
southwest Germany (car) to east coast USA (telegraph / telegram)
60,000 km
600 km
6,000 km
60 km
10. the highest & the 2nd highest mountain
Mount Everest & K2
1 km
50 km
1,300 km
8,900 km
11. Niagara falls & Ayers Rock
Canada & Australia
16,000 km
1,600 km
16 km
160 km
12. where the pope lives & where Ceasar was stabbed
the Vatican is in Rome
1,000 km
100 km
10,000 km
1 km
13. New York & Los Angeles
6,000 km
2,000 km
4,000 km
170 km
14. Mariana trench & Reykjavík
the Mariana trench is in the Pacific Ocean, Reykiavík is in Iceland (North Atlantic)