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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
Counterintuitive (to me):
Reno is farther West than LA
Pittsburgh is farther East than Miami
Seattle is farther North than Quebec City
Santiago (Chile) is farther East than NYC
Oddities:
Premier, BC is accessible by road only through Hyder, AK, accessible by road only through Stewart, BC
The road network here, due to poor diplomatic relations, is insane:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8815393,44.4295176,11z
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I'm not surprised by Pittsburgh, and Seattle makes sense once you visualize the map in your head, but my brain just doesn't want to accept that Reno is farther west than LA is. That is a weird one.
And, yeah, Santiago. Especially considering it's on the west coast of South America. A lot of Americans take for granted that South America is more or less south of North America, but at least 95% of the continent is actually east of North America.
We also tend to think of Europe as being east of the US, but the bulk of the US is actually more in line with Africa than Europe. And if you draw a straight line from the west coast of Europe, you end up on the northern/northeast coast of South America.