the far side of the United States —
where you would come out digging straight through
Nearest American soil
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drag the globe · hover to measure
The Far Side
Which country is furthest from the United States? Measure from the
nearest American soil to the nearest soil of that country — the shortest
trip that gets you there at all — and the answer changes depending on whether
Alaska and Hawaii count.
Outlines Natural Earth 1:10 m, densified to
3 km. Distances are geodesics on the WGS84 ellipsoid, not great circles on a sphere.
Every landmass on Earth is drawn and shaded; only sovereign states are ranked, so
Greenland is coloured but listed under nobody, and Hong Kong is not a country here.
The United States being measured from is the lower 48 or the fifty states — Guam,
Puerto Rico and American Samoa are drawn as ordinary land, not as part of it.