Note that the title is wrong. It's a circle on a map, not in real life and thus it's not a "2 500-mile radius". A sphere in real life would be distorted in the

Note that the title is wrong. It's a circle on a map, not in real life and thus it's not a "2 500-mile radius". A sphere in real life would be distorted in the map. In fact, all the meridians and circles of latitude are circles in real life but on the map they don't show up as circles.