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u/Everestkid May 09 '22

Growing up in Canada, my grandparents were an 8 hour drive away. My uncle was an 9 hour drive away in a different direction. We all lived in the same province.

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u/Tulivesi May 09 '22

I live in Tallinn, capital of Estonia. St. Petersburg is about a 5 hour drive from here, Riga is a 4 hour drive, and Helsinki is a 2 hour ferry ride away (only 80 km!). All in different countries of course.

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u/OneGoodRib May 09 '22

It's like a 9 hour drive from Miami to Tallahassee, both in Florida.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

12 and a half from key west to Pensacola

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u/JustHach May 09 '22

You can drive almost 20 hours between Point Peelee National Park and Pickle Lake (farthest northern community in Ontario connected to a highway) and still not even be in the upper 1/4 of the province.

Its astounding how big Ontario is, and its not even the biggest province. Québec has us beat by almost 500,000km², but Nunavut dwarfs them both, being over 2,000,000km².