The most surprising bit for me (because it really depends on the world being round) is Alaska - parts of which are closest to Tokyo, Reykjavik, or Ottawa. (No

The most surprising bit for me (because it really depends on the world being round) is Alaska - parts of which are closest to Tokyo, Reykjavik, or Ottawa. (No part of Alaska is closest to Washington.) In the US, the southwesternmost bit of Virginia is closer to 9 other state capitals than to Virginia's capital of Richmond (https://cardinalnews.org/2022/02/28/ewing-is-closer-to-nine-other-state-capitals-than-its-own/ https://cardinalnews.org/2022/02/28/ewing-is-closer-to-nine-...). On a world scale these numbers can get quite large - it looks like 33 capitals are closer to Vladivostok than Moscow is (https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159041/how-many-capitals-are-closer-to-me-than-my-own https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159041/how-m...).