Using Google maps, USA should be on. From Guam to a small island off the Taiwanese cost (Xiao-lan Yu), there is a distance of 2609 km. Don't know if the quiz is using the main island and not the islands off the coast, though.
Overseas territories are excluded (as per the instructions), but if you include them, Guam is 2613 km / 1623 miles from that uninhabited offshore island. If you include overseas territories, but only count from the nearest inhabited island, at 2617 km / 1626 miles Guam still just makes the list. If you only count distances from mainland Taiwan, then Guam would slip off the list at 2685 km /1668 miles.
I have made the exactly same quiz on February last year, the only thing different is mine includes overseas territories. Didn't get why it isn't featured first...
The westernmost island in FSM is Yap, which is the distance you see in this quiz away. Micronesia's a large country though, in extent if not in land area; the distance to the "far" end of the country, at Kosrae, is 4830 km / 3001 miles.
and i was thinking that this quiz wouldn't have someone in the comments blindly following lies pushed by the Chinese government saying that a fully functional independent country with official relations with 14 countries and unofficial relations with many others (including japan and the US), but here we are.
No, taiwan, in it's current state, is not a province of china, for the very reasons i just mentioned. It is also not THE China. It is it's own country.
Just like Ukraine is a legitimate country of Russia right? And Romania, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia. Taiwan is not part of China yet. Until they stretch their evil arm and attack it.
Maybe to make this less politically charged, include "excluding overseas territories and mainland China". I think adding the word "mainland" is enough of a bow to what's going on there.
No, taiwan, in it's current state, is not a province of china, for the very reasons i just mentioned. It is also not THE China. It is it's own country.
Also me: *forgets about Japan*
Also missed Vietnam which is annoying, guess i thought i had already typed it
Otherwise got em all