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I measured it a while ago (well, 11 years now) and both France and the UK made the cut[0]. France has much more margin though, IIRC no single territory becomin
by seszett 1y ago
I measured it a while ago (well, 11 years now) and both France and the UK made the cut[0].
France has much more margin though, IIRC no single territory becoming independent would make the sun set on France.
[0]https://ssz.fr/sun-never-sets/ https://ssz.fr/sun-never-sets/
- madcaptenor 1y agoI'm glad someone did this, because for a moment I was thinking that I was going to have to do the math on France.
- arethuza 1y agoFrance also has the longest internal scheduled flight - 9,349km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_longest_domestic_flight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_longest_domestic_fli...
- diggan 1y agoHad*, seems it was added to work around American Covid restrictions, and it was only active for ~1 month.
- seszett 1y agoYou're thinking of the (temporary) Tahiti flight, but that was much longer than 9349 km. The person you're responding to was talking about the Paris-Réunion flight that has been active for a long time and still active today. I took it 15 years ago when I had to go to Réunion.
- diggan 1y agoOh, seems indeed I confused the two, thanks for the correction!