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The westernmost point you can drive to (with no ferries!) in NA is Anchor Point, AK. The Easternmost is St. Lewis, NL. The drive between the two looks pretty epic: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/59.7...52.3692011!3e0

Adding ferries, I suppose you can probably get from Unalaska to Cape Spear, via both Anchor Point and St. Lewis if you so desire:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/53.8...47.5166667!3e0


In the other hemisphere, much more epic drives are possible (e.g. Dakar to Omsukchan, although getting to Omsukchan requires a ferry across the Aldan river, so not really ferry less!).
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Detroit is the only place in the US that’s north of Canada.
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Detroit is the only place in the US that’s north of Canada.
How are you defining that though? By adjacency?

I mean, somewhere like Minneapolis is farther north than some parts of Canada. Just not the part of Canada that's directly adjacent. There's lots of the US that is farther north than places like Windsor, London, Hamilton, and Toronto. What about Alaska?
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Detroit is the only place in the US that’s north of Canada.
How are you defining that though? By adjacency?

I mean, somewhere like Minneapolis is farther north than some parts of Canada. Just not the part of Canada that's directly adjacent. There's lots of the US that is farther north than places like Windsor, London, Hamilton, and Toronto. What about Alaska?
Doesn't the lower 48 go more north than most of the population of Canada?

What percentage of Canada's population is more south than Seattle?

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How are you defining that though? By adjacency?

I mean, somewhere like Minneapolis is farther north than some parts of Canada. Just not the part of Canada that's directly adjacent. There's lots of the US that is farther north than places like Windsor, London, Hamilton, and Toronto. What about Alaska?
Windsor is the only city in Canada where you can look DIRECTLY north into the USA.
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Windsor is the only city in Canada where you can look DIRECTLY north into the USA.
Chippewa and Fort Erie, ON and a bunch of rural places can claim this as well.
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Yep, there are plenty of points in New Hampshire and Maine from which you can look directly due south into Quebec.

Something that's more rare is to have Canadians living due south of Americans but even then, Windsor/Detroit isn't 100% unique:

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.811071,-67.7802563,14z
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The geographical center of North America is in North Dakota, next to a town called Rugby.
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The western coast of South America belonging to the same longitude as the US’ east coast threw me off for the longest time. It explains why LA doesn’t have larger Ecuadorian, Peruvian, and Colombian populations on par with NYC. It also drives home the point about how isolated a country the US is.

Miami being roughly equidistant between Havana and Orlando (as the crow flies) is also fascinating, as is the fact that the flight time from Miami to Bogota is a mere 15 minutes longer than to Chicago and Dallas.
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Los Angeles California is about the same distance from Naukan Russia (3,035 miles) as it is from Panama City, Panama (2,995 miles).
I found two sources that both estimate that Panama City is roughly 26 miles closer than Naukan. Both the point is well-taken.
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I live in the Niagara region of Ontario which is a Peninsula.
In the (South) centre of the region is Welland. The East side of the city of Welland could be considered a Peninsula within a Peninsula



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I found an itinerary hitting the highway-accessible extremities of the Eurasian + African mainlands:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/-34....d62.533333!3e0

This does use ferries (it's possible to avoid them by going quite out of your way, and by driving the Kolyma Highway in winter). You can also rather easily add Iceland by taking the ferry from Denmark to Iceland to get even more E-W coverage.
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I found an itinerary hitting the highway-accessible extremities of the Eurasian + African mainlands:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/-34....d62.533333!3e0

This does use ferries (it's possible to avoid them by going quite out of your way, and by driving the Kolyma Highway in winter). You can also rather easily add Iceland by taking the ferry from Denmark to Iceland to get even more E-W coverage.
Better bring some snacks and maybe a change of clothes for that drive.
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Doesn't the lower 48 go more north than most of the population of Canada?

What percentage of Canada's population is more south than Seattle?
Bellingham, WA is at a latitude of about 48°45", which puts almost the entirety of eastern Canada's population south of it, or 25 million people and 65% of Canada's population.
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Better bring some snacks and maybe a change of clothes for that drive.
Hah, I think that's the least of problems!

Just going West to East (this time including Iceland) seems like it would actually be reasonable though: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/L%C3...d62.533333!3e0
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I found an itinerary hitting the highway-accessible extremities of the Eurasian + African mainlands:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/-34....d62.533333!3e0

This does use ferries (it's possible to avoid them by going quite out of your way, and by driving the Kolyma Highway in winter). You can also rather easily add Iceland by taking the ferry from Denmark to Iceland to get even more E-W coverage.
There was once a bus route between London and Kolkata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London...ta_bus_service
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50 days on a bus? I can barely survive 5 hours on a bus.
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There was once a bus route between London and Kolkata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London...ta_bus_service
This sounds like absolute hell. I mean, in theory, it would be cool to see all these countries, and probably the 1960's was full of hippies and weird/interesting folk, but this sounds like a shitshow. I'd probably bail before they hit Turkey.
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Today, you can travel from the UK to Vietnam by train. (That link is to Seat 61, a thorough train planning website and one of my favorite travel sites.)

Once Cambodia finishes restoring a handful of its railways, and including a ferry across the Irish Sea, you could do an Ireland to Singapore odyssey by train.
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