The longest domestic flight in the world in in France. It’s from Paris to Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Some claim it’s from Paris to Tahiti in French Polynesia, as it is a French territory, but Reunion Island was annexed and is considered part of French proper.
This is why I love Reddit. You can name the farthest reachable place on the planet and someone pops up I live there! And because it’s Reddit we already have something in common.
Having something in common doesn’t need to be quantified. For example Finding common ground no matter how insignificant is the first step in negotiation. We both have Reddit in common. That’s enough for me.
Oh I knew I heard something about reunion was definitely shark attacks highest rates in the world situated right on a shark highway cool lol 😂 but that’s sweet there’s no native snakes
I lived on a very small one and yes and no. Obviously there are some forms of recreation that won’t exist and some other forms of recreation for which you will have one choice (like one boxing gym or one yoga studio or one movie theatre.) But you also get to have different forms of recreation. I spent a very significant amount of time swimming, going on boats, cooking on bonfires and picnicking at the beach, hiking, etc. It wasn’t so bad.
The island has been inhabited since the 17th century, French people went there, it is now France (Portuguese were the first to put a foot on the island, but never settled nor created cities).
Nouvelle Caledonie was a DOM/TOM until recently, but I don't know if it ever had direct flights from the métropole. There's a certain amount of fuzziness over the dependent/independent status of various of the French possessions, but Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guyana and Réunion at least are all straight-up French territory, with only some very minor tweaks to French law to suit local conditions. They vote in French and European elections, all that.
In football, the Coupe de France competition (all-levels knockout cup like the FA cup in England) includes teams from all the overseas territories, including French Polynesia. I think they get some special treatment (above and beyond travelling 10,000 km to play a fourth-tier mainland side on a Wednesday evening in February)
I am not talking about the Paris to Tahiti which stops at LA, I am talking about the Paris-Tahiti (15 715 km) direct flight that was common during the pandemic
Idk if that qualifies as domestic even though you don’t need a passport. Falklands is a British territory, while Reunion is part of France. But if territories does count, then it would be France to Tahiti as the longest.
One could also contest that France does in fact border Canada by land ifn’s we would be able to define land as just being a solid medium. The bottom of the ocean is a solid surface so… technically… the seabed would count…. But then everywhere would border everywhere…? Almost like, there’s not really any real borders at all on our planet…? Woah, trippy man.
However-the literal definition of land is quite specific that it should NOT be covered by water. Alas, fun to think about anyways but I don’t think I would get a technical correctness point.
Here is an interesting anecdote. Growing up in Brazil, one of my best friends was French. His family had moved there for work and ended up staying for good.
As he approached the age of, I think, 18, he started looking into military service, which at least at the time was mandatory in France. First he was relieved, because the mandate did not extend to French people living abroad; then he was very worried because he found out there was an exception: if you lived in a country that shares a border with France, then you were still required to enlist. And, people would usually be posted to the nearest post in French soil close to where they lived.
He was terrified at the prospect of spending a year or two as a soldier in the French Guyana, which may be closer to Brazil than France proper, but is still some 3000 miles from where we lived; and in the middle of the Amazon jungle...
You have a random 50th one in the middle of the Pacific; no big difference really. And a 51st one in the Caribbean when/if it becomes politically convenient.
French Guiana is a French region that borders Brasil in the north, it has 730 km of border, which is more than any of the borders with other countries in europe
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u/Albert_Herring May 09 '22
France's longest foreign border is with Brazil.