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Longest continuous straight-line (great circle) path over land
Record
13,588 km
8,443.2 mi
What to remember
Draw a perfectly straight line on the globe, a great circle, starting from the West African coast near Greenville, Liberia. It can run for 13,588 km over continuous land, ending on a peninsula about 100 km northeast of Wenzhou, China.
On the way it passes over the Suez Canal. It is the longest continuous straight-line path over land on Earth.
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- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “Extremes on Earth” (revision used 1378552349). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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