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1. Paris & Berlin
1400 km
550 km
880 km
2750 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
9500 km
14000 km
80 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.
2 trillion km
2 million km
5 billion km
150 million km
4. Earth & Moon
less than you thought?
1 million km
95,000 km
5 million km
380,000 km
5. Equator & North Pole
this would be a quarter of the earths circumference
40,000 km
10,000 km
970 km
18,000 km
6. Bangkok & New Delhi
9,500 km
17 km
3,000 km
480 km
7. two bonded Atoms
100 pico meters are 0.1 nano meters
10 nano meters
100 pico meters
0,1 mm
4 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.
2.5 million light years
13.8 billion 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)
600 km
60 km
60,000 km
6,000 km
10. the highest & the 2nd highest mountain
Mount Everest & K2
1,300 km
1 km
8,900 km
50 km
11. Niagara falls & Ayers Rock
Canada & Australia
16 km
160 km
16,000 km
1,600 km
12. where the pope lives & where Ceasar was stabbed
the Vatican is in Rome
1,000 km
1 km
100 km
10,000 km
13. New York & Los Angeles
170 km
6,000 km
2,000 km
4,000 km
14. Mariana trench & Reykjavík
the Mariana trench is in the Pacific Ocean, Reykiavík is in Iceland (North Atlantic)