Monday, September 24, 2012

Distances from Bonn

I came up with the strange idea of sorting European capitals by how far they are from the town I live in (Bonn, Germany) and found that half a dozen of foreign capitals are nearer than the capital of Germany.

City Country Distance in km
Luxembourg City Luxembourg 142
City of Brussels Belgium 195
Amsterdam Netherlands 234
Paris France 400
Bern Switzerland 425
Vaduz Liechtenstein 437
Berlin Germany 478
London United Kingdom 510
Prague Czech Republic 527
Copenhagen Denmark 659
Vienna Austria 726
Ljubljana Slovenia 755
Bratislava Slovakia 779
Monaco Monaco 779
City of San Marino San Marino 857
Zagreb Croatia 857
Budapest Hungary 942
Dublin Republic of Ireland 957
Warsaw Poland 976
Oslo Norway 1047
Rome Italy 1065
Vatican City Vatican City 1065
Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina 1143
Stockholm Sweden 1181
Belgrade Serbia 1195
Vilnius Lithuania 1300
Riga Latvia 1308
Podgorica Montenegro 1347
Madrid Spain 1421
Minsk Belarus 1430
Tirana Albania 1432
Ankara Turkey 1447
Skopje Macedonia 1463
Tallinn Estonia 1474
Sofia Bulgaria 1522
Helsinki Finland 1530
Bucharest Romania 1583
Chişinău Moldova 1639
Kiev Ukraine 1648
Valletta Malta 1745
Lisbon Portugal 1845
Athens Greece 1931
Moscow Russia 2086
Reykjavík Iceland 2257
Tbilisi Georgia 3034
Yerevan Armenia 3106
Baku Azerbaijan 3469

If you find this idea interesting what about composing a similar table for the location you live in?

1 comment:

  1. If this calculation could be done with Google's Maps API, that would make things a bit easier. :)

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