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Shortest city routes aren't straight lines on maps 🇺🇸
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Shortest city routes aren't straight lines on maps 🇺🇸

The shortest path between two Earth points, like London and San Francisco, isn't a straight line on a conventional map. This "great-circle route" or "orthodromic distance" is a curve following the planet's surface. A transatlantic flight, for instance, often passes over Greenland, proving significan

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