Wow, that seems like a pretty random response to the BBC saying a town right next to the capital is "perched on an isolated spot 18 miles away from the capital"

Wow, that seems like a pretty random response to the BBC saying a town right next to the capital is "perched on an isolated spot 18 miles away from the capital". And by the way, what you said is not true. Please investigate the concept of significant digits. Reading that something is "18 miles away" and taking that to mean an exact number of millimeters is ridiculous. Given that we don't know from which exact point we are measuring, "18 miles", "19 miles", and "about 20 miles" would all be OK here, as is "30 km". If any of these were true, that is.