r/MapPorn • u/TheOhNoNotAgain • 6h ago

Number of capitals closer than Stockholm

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u/Sisselpud 6h ago

What country has territory that is closer to the most number of other countries' capitals than their own? I'm thinking the DRC is a good candidate with Kinshasa all the way to the west and so many other countries bordering it.

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u/Sisselpud 6h ago

Did some quick research and it looks like Russia is probably the winner with Vladivostok, for example, being closer to thirty-four other capitals than it is to Moscow.

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u/Attygalle 5h ago

Yeah without doing any research at all Russia seems to be the obvious candidate as it is huge and the capital is fairly much to one side of the country, and most other big countries (eg Canada, USA) don’t border that many countries to begin with.

Of course if you take overseas territories into account some other country might win it.

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u/Sisselpud 5h ago

Yes I think France would be the winner with New Caledonia on nearly the opposite side of the Earth thus making almost every capital closer to it than Paris

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u/PsychicPterodactyl 3h ago

USA) don’t border that many countries to begin with.

But there are many small countries in the Carribbean. If the US capital was in Washington (the state) instead of Washington DC, the count would be quite high.

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u/Fanatic_Atheist 53m ago

It still is if we take Guam

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u/wenoc 4h ago

Overseas has to be possible in the OP, as the southwestern point of Sweden is surrounded by sea.

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u/GustapheOfficial 4h ago

That's not what they mean by overseas. They mean territories separated from the mainland by ... seas. Sweden, for instance, used to have an overseas territory on St Bartholomew in the Caribbean, which would have ranked quite highly on this.

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u/wenoc 4h ago

Ah of course. Thank you.

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u/MalteiKlass5c 4h ago

They talking about oversea territories, not maritime borders/EEZ. The former Sweden (currently) has none, the latter Sweden has a lot of.

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u/Edvindenbest 4h ago

I'd say some place like French New Caledonia, if we allow overseas territory. Probably closer to most of the world's capitals than it is to France.

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u/Sisselpud 4h ago

Agreed per my other comment here. I think it is closer to like 165-170 other capitals.

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u/Upstairs-Border-7146 3h ago

French overseas territories win most prizes for France in geography contests: longest border with another country, number of time zones...

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u/jamgill 4h ago

I think any big country with lots of smaller countries bordering it will do fairly good. Bonus points if the capital is tucked away in a corner. I think china, Brazil, DRC, Russia, Germany and maybe like Indonesia will all be good candidates

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u/markjohnstonmusic 5h ago

Looks like Sweden's southernmost extremes are only a few kilometres away from being closer to Amsterdam and Warsaw, respectively, than Stockholm, too.

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u/sverigeochskog 3h ago

You really notice it when you're in Skåne, the architecture, landscapes, accents even the culture are all much more European/Continental than the rest of Sweden.

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u/Gayboy-Hunter 1h ago

As someone who lives there I kinda agree, but at the same time not.

I'd say we're just modern city Swedes without the Stockholm vibe and that's about it.

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u/Not_KGB 4m ago

Absolute nonsense.

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u/DoctorNiao 1h ago

Wtf? 😂

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u/donsimoni 6h ago

Three even? Oslo, Kopenhagen and Berlin?

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u/AnswerGuy301 6h ago

Helsinki for the north probably.

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u/TheOhNoNotAgain 5h ago

And Tallinn

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u/wenoc 4h ago

Berlin seems closer than Amsterdam yes.

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u/LeaveMeAloneAdmins88 5h ago edited 4h ago

Oslo (Norway)
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Berlin (Germany)
Helsinki (Finland)
Tallinn (Estonia)

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u/X_crafter 4h ago

dont forget helsinki

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u/PraetorianX 5h ago

Can someone help me understand something? When we move from the white 0 territory furthest to the north, directly into 2 territory (the small wedge), which 2 capitals are suddenly closer than Stockholm?

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u/jjpetke 5h ago

Oslo and Helsinki

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u/Vidaro_best 4h ago

Each line shows a capital thats closer

https://reddit.com/link/phcmifn/video/vc5au6wfl2wh1/player

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u/EtaZetaTheta 2h ago

Why is this a gif?!

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u/Vidaro_best 1h ago

images are no allowed so i had to make it a video

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u/NiceKobis 5h ago

Oslo and Helsinki I believe.

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u/Nikkonor 5h ago

Oslo and Helsinki.

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u/SeparateTrack2818 6h ago

The lines are suspiciously straight.

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u/TheOhNoNotAgain 6h ago

The straight lines are real. The boundaries are great circles, which happen to look almost straight on this map. I double-checked the geometry. The rendered boundaries deviate by less than 70 meters from the calculated ones, and the actual curves bend by only about 100–285 meters over hundreds of kilometers.

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u/-HowAboutNo- 4h ago

Good shit OP

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u/Fitzriy 5h ago

Of course? It's basic geometry

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u/Ingenrollsroyce 3h ago

Euclidean geometry

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u/JG134 4h ago

Depends on the map. It's a projection of a sphere.

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u/gmaaz 6h ago

The closeness map is a voronoi graph.

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u/sverigeochskog 3h ago

Well what would you expect?

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u/Fanatic_Atheist 52m ago

Unrelated but I love how Vietnam's geographical centre is in Laos and Laos' centre is in Thailand

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u/norsk_imposter 4h ago

I live in west Värmland and I fly from Oslo and work in Oslo so yeah it’s close

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u/ptico 3h ago

That’s a bit of curse living in Malmö as a foreign citizen. The closest embassy is 40 minutes away but naah, go to Stockholm 7 hours one way

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u/ForzaA84 1h ago

That's a your embassy/country problem - the two I have had to deal with are both "sure, come to Copenhagen".

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u/Gayboy-Hunter 1h ago

Gf had to do the 7hr travel to Stockholm instead of 1hr to Copenhagen. :(

She was getting her passport renewed and they refused to do it from the Copenhagen embassy.

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u/Gayboy-Hunter 1h ago

Zone 3 represent! Best area in the world!

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u/AchmodinIVSWE 1h ago

Closer to what?

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u/enburkmax 46m ago

KÄLLKRITIK?

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u/CrabSquid05 4h ago

Grammar my beloved, what the fuck does it mean

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u/YuzuZor 2h ago

Interesting how geography plays into capital locations!

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u/Friendly_Top6561 1h ago

Who cares?

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u/Ordinary_Nose_5436 5h ago

And your point with this is?

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u/X_crafter 4h ago

there is no point, we on map porn to look at cool maps

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u/Vidaro_best 4h ago

its r/mapporn why would there need to be a point

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u/SnooPeanuts7822 4h ago

For fun, try it!

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u/SeparateTrack2818 4h ago

It's great fun.

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u/One-Dimension6875 4h ago

It’s a map showing that aliens rule the Michelin Guide