I was being a bit tongue in cheek of course, but understood OPs point more as a typical example of "US yuge, Europe small", whereas the distance Berlin to Rome is about roughly the same 1000mile trip by car (or by train or by plane) and it's not even a long trip within the EU.
You sure about that number? I recall doing the math a couple years back that London-Warsaw was about that or a little over. I’d figure Berlin-Rome as more like 400-600 miles.
(But could easily be around 1000 kilometers through - unit confusion?)
I looked it up on gmaps and it came around 1500 km for the shortest route. Berlin - Munich is already 600km and remember Rome isn't in the north of Italy
Perhaps this is a case where ol’ Mercator struck again, stretching Europe (which is at high latitude) in the east-west direction. Or just not thinking in the north-side direction properly, at least I tend to inventory geography “north of the alps” and “south of the alps” in separate mental “bins,” if that makes any sense.
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u/Seiche 3d ago
I was being a bit tongue in cheek of course, but understood OPs point more as a typical example of "US yuge, Europe small", whereas the distance Berlin to Rome is about roughly the same 1000mile trip by car (or by train or by plane) and it's not even a long trip within the EU.