Btw you can do it also in Germany more or less.
I believe it’s possible also in France .
Edit: don’t want to insult anyone, I was just curious, nothing else.
You can fly 10+ hours from France and still land in France 💀
Imagine the horror of not being able to escape France. Truly a fate worse than death
Funny, I say the same thing about Texas.
After having worked in Texas a few years, the food is waaay worse there. (A few places in Dallas Deep Ellum were good, and I never made it to Austin, but on average, but great).
France please.
Dunno, croissants
I’d watch that movie
The sun never sets on the
BritishFrench empire!Le soleil ne se couche jamais sur l’empire français*
Silly France, why are you reinstalling a monarch after all these y- Oh no…
Don’t worry he says he is Jupiter, everything will be fine.
In addition to the other comment about it being a single state within the US, we’re also talking about roughly 1500-1600 kilometers in the Texas map. It would mostly be 70-75mph (120kph) highways the whole way.
May I present Kiruna to Trelleborg (1882 km) in Sweden?
Yes, those are countries, not single states within a country. Different things.
edit: ya’ll are acting so fucking weird in this comment thread. Jesus Christ I don’t even give a shit about the size of America or the US/EU pissing contest, I was merely and correctly pointing out the non-equivalence of the items being compared. Holy shit get a fucking life if you give two shits about the topic itself, goddamn. The hate boner some of you have for one country or another to the point of spite downvoting and intentionally misinterpreting shit is fucking ridiculous.
You are united states tho. Similiar to EU in 100 years.
That’s not correct at all.
Yes, how is this relevant? The point is they were comparing the length of time to cross a single American state to the time to cross an entire country, which are two different things. Driving through Texas isn’t equivalent to driving through Germany, it’s equivalent to driving through Bavaria.
The longest I can get for Bavaria is five hours.
It is because most of the EU participates in an agreement without hard borders and is united by a larger entity that collects taxes and holds elections in its states/countries.
The degree of federalism is higher in the USA than Europeans think it is. After all, each American state has at least one army.
Ok, edited it.
Ah, in that case, no, you’re still wrong and we are not anything like the EU, not really. The of autonomy and sovereignty each member of the EU has is vastly different, and mostly vastly greater, than that of each of the individual states of America. Again, the correct equivalence isn’t America = EU, it’s America = Germany and Texas = Bavaria. Hope that helps.
Yeah nah
Okay, so tell me then which of these you believe:
That the EU as a whole should only have one singular seat in the UN, NATO, and other similar organizations,
Or that every American state should have their own seat in the UN, NATO, and others?
Better now?
About your edit, that’s why I added the disclaimer on my first comment lol. I fully knew it would degenerate in a biggest dick contest and wanted to avoid being part of it.
I sincerely wish I had your wisdom and foresight. I just can’t imagine caring the way these people seem to care.
You guys have funny gatekeeping. Oh well, to each his own, I guess
You guys get to make fun of the imperial system, and healthcare, and fahrenheit, and gun crime. Let us have one thing.
Fair enough
It is a fair comparison, especially within the EU.
Well done texans 👏 the guys with rulers drew your box on the map the biggest
french guiana is part of france, and the eu.
So is Réunion. Shall we count the time to take a boat to the island or just a flight?
New York to Hawaii can be a 13 hour flight depending on the Island you wanna land on. Alaska to Miami is similar and even drivable. Fairbanks to Miami is a brisk 77 hour drive.
Yeah, but you aren’t driving that fast in Germany, apparently. The Texas trip will be over 1,400 km.
Yeah, but you aren’t driving that fast in Germany
*confused autobahn noises*
If the Texas Trip is near the speed of the German trip, it is likely that the German trip isn’t taking place on the Autobahn.
For comparison, Bellingham, WA to Key West, FL. Same country, 2 days without stops.
I tried Brazil. Got 79h going East to West from Recife to Cruzeiro do Sul and 90h going South to North from Chuí to Oiapoque. Granted, our roads aren’t the best but you’re still looking at over 5000km of travel either way.
That’s a long ass road trip, thanks for sharing. I was trying to get directions from Alaska to southern Argentina but Google said nope
Depends where you’re starting in Alaska most likely. There are major areas that are not connected to the rest of North America by road, only boat/ferry where Google might not include that.
Yes, good luck with the Darian Gap
You can’t drive from north to south america! Look up Darien Gap
Til
Sounds like we need to remedy that, tunnel through the Gulf of Mexico or some bridges across the gap’s rivers, which is cooler?
You’re comparing an entire country to the US’ 2nd largest state of fifty, though.
As stated in other comments I don’t care about dimensions, I wanted to share just a trivia and not spark a dumb contest (spoiler, it did not work)
Since we are doing whole countries, you can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and still be in Russia:
I can’t even zoom out enough.
EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours:
Ops post would be more effective by stating average speed.
But what would it be for Bavaria or or Lower Saxony?
Just for funsies I looked it up and Miami FL to Seattle WA is a 48 hour drive. Longest I found within the continental US upon a quick googling of recognizable cities.
I did a similar diagonal route across Canada. 84 hours it says.
Kind of unrelated but i met a dude from scotland who walked across canada with his dog luna… Took a little while
Thats a bit more than the Alaska to Miami drives I found. I think there one where you can drive all the way to an arctic research base in a similar timeframe.
You can’t drive to Alaska without entering Canada
Okay.
Now, that starts to be a long distance lmao
My question is how much of that is highway travel and/or straight? In the Texas map most of that travel will be highways at 80mph. I know Germany has the autobahn but living in Colombia has made me suspicious of long travel times which actually have short distances traveled since this country is very mountainous and I don’t think a straight road exists here.
1/3 to 1/2 of the Texas trip will be interstate highways. The rest is mixed bag of divided highways with at grade crossings and two lane highways.
Texas will still make their back roads 80mph lmao, even with grade crossings
Nearly all of it is Autobahn. It is basically just road work slowing you down and even that is not too bad.
All these guys are posting crossing their whole country, but as Texas is one state, it’s fair to say that’s the same as a province.
Shared route From Windsor, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario via ON-401 E.
23 hr 6 min (2,190 km) For the best route in current traffic visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jmm9TmKVu79bTANq5
Staying only within Ontario, Canada it takes almost one full day of literally non stop driving.
Best I can find in Canada is in BC. I think you could get longer distances in a few other provinces, but the issue is a lack of roads/destinations in the northern corners, haha.
The 51st state is part of the USA, that’s the whole point of this post. The Euros just can’t grasp the size.
I guess I missed the /s
Did no one get the 51st state joke…
Your geography lesson for today is (Google) mapping a route from Brest to Menton (France) and compare it to the route posted by OP.
But that’s crossing a country. Texas is a state. Going from San Diego to Portland, Maine is ~46 hours, and that’s probably not the longest route. There’s also Alaska and Hawaii (no direct roads to the contiguous 48 states), and Florida, that’s just a pretty long route off the top of my head.
Your geography lesson for today is to map 2 routes across the EU and compare them to your statement.
- Map the longest route across the continental EU.
- Connect the farthest points of France by way of Paris and compare it to the distance between Hawaii and New York. (Hint: Start is in South America or the Caribbean and finish is in the Pacific. )
Lol, I always forget how much random stuff France owns across the globe.
But here’s an overlay of the EU on the contiguous 48 US states from Reddit (doesn’t include Alaska, which is half as big as the whole US). That even gives the EU UK, which is no longer a member state. Alaska is really really big (like more than half the size of the lower 48 states).
As next lesson you’re going to learn about the failings of the Mercator projection - stay with me you’re going to love this!
While Alaska is pretty massive it is not as big as you think it is. Follow this link to the website that Redditor used to create the visual and drag Alaska onto the rest of the US: https://www.thetruesize.com/#?borders=1~!MTYxNTY4MzI.ODIwNzY1OA*MTA0MzY2ODQ(MzUyODQ4MQ~!CONTIGUOUS_US*MTAwMjQwNzU.MjUwMjM1MTc(MTc1)Mg~!IN*NTI2NDA1MQ.Nzg2MzQyMQ)MQ!CN*OTkyMTY5Nw.NzMxNDcwNQ(MjI1)MA!US-AK*MzU2MjMwMg.Mjg0OTg3OTk)Mw
Next drag Greenland onto Africa and vice versa, then both onto the US. Amazing isn’t it?
This is awesome!!
Your history lesson for today is looking up when Canada became the 51st state…and realize I was being sarcastic.
Someone travelling from Windsor would almost certainly take the shorter 17hr trip through the states. Still a long one.
This is in one state.
That is a respectable size and to you sir I can only say what any man can say in this situation.
It’s not about the size, but how you use it. ;-)
Does that account for times you have to stop to brawl with a moose?
If you’re brawling with a moose then you’re not a true Canadian. Every Canadian knows the moose wins every time.
This is true. A moose once bit my sister.
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti
Fucking eat it Texas!
Wtf is a Woonsocket?
Its where you plug in your pawtucket
Can confirm. When we moved back to Colorado from Austin, we drove all day at 55mph (truck was speed limited) which was about 13 hours, and we were still in Texas. It was very disheartening.
This whole thread is the strangest dick measuring contest.
Good thing mine is short AND skinny. Also I shake my hips way worse than Shakira.
Are you from a small state like Liechtenstein ?
Vatican City. We measure travel times via water balloon launches.
Meh… You can drive 13hrs in Australia and not see another person.
Australia enters the chat,
Oi, mate, 13 hours to cross a state, that’s cute.
I mean in fairness Australia is a whole ass country
Edit: today I learned Australia also has states :)
You’ve lost me the USA is a country as well.?
In Aus, we have a state called Western Australia (we’re really imaginative with naming,) and its friggin huge…! (Pictured)
Approx 2.6 million km2 Or approx 1 million sq freedom units
Good to see another Aussie pointing out that WA is Bigger than Texas!
Everything’s bigger in Texas, except WA that shit is huge…!
Initially I did Kununurra to Eucla which is approx 40hrs, but you can do it in 38 hrs if you go through the territory and SA. In the efforts of keeping things fair and saying in the same state such as the OP, Esperance seemed to prove the point. There’s defs longer commutes, but shy of triple seemed to be enough to prove a point.
PS love the username
Kununurra to Eucla is 40 hours, suprisingly it’s 3 hours quicker to go through northern territory and south Australia.
Cheers, thought I’d let them know who they’re arguing with.
It’s not the same, you’re using metric hours. :)
Hahahahahaha, you made me spit my coffee, take my upvote
Get it right. It’s utus. Universal Time Units.
You can suck my utus
To be fair days are different: metric day is always 86400 seconds long while UTC day is 86399-86401 seconds long.
If you think that Australia is huge, you should play with navigation in Russia.
Funny, we have similar distances in India it seems but with travel times on Google Maps mentioned in days instead of hours thanks to our excellent roads
Same goes for Alaska/Canada/Russia/China. This meme must have been made by stereotypical self centered texan lmao
Yeah, you can fit Texas 4.5 times into Yakutia in Russia.
How about Sweden?
My european mind doesn’t give a shit about the us , it doesn’t even think of it .
IMO the USA doesn’t have that much “space” it just takes awhile to cross. Land utilization is fairly high and much of unused lands needs constant conservation efforts to maintain wildlife.
Just take the train…
Oh, sorry, my European mind did not realize that that option doesn’t exist over there…
Giggles in aussie
Yeah you Aussies get it in a way the Brits just don’t. Your continent is also quite large. Driving from Perth to Sydney is about like the drive from San Francisco to New York. 3 days later you arrive at a different ocean.
I met some Brits on a flight back to Aus and they were a bit confused…
They thought they would be having breakfast at Bondi, bushwalk and picnic in the Blue Mountains then drive down to Melbourne for dinner and back to their hotel in Sydney.
That’s around 20 hours of driving not including stops.
They really didn’t comprehend the scale.
Sometimes I wonder if they do that on purpose just to amuse Americans/Australians/Canadians. “Remember to ask to see things in three corners of the continent in an afternoon and watch them explain how unreasonably gigantic the place is. They seem to love it.”
On the other hand I did once have to explain to one of my British friends what American TV bumpers meant when they said “nine, eight central.” You don’t tend to think about time zones when your whole country fits in one of them.
I would think so but I overheard them and they had no idea I was Aussie at that point…
You can drive as long as you want, it’s still aussie
I keep telling everybody that says the US is full that I’ve been to the fucking Dakotas and I disagree.
My european mind can very well comprehend this. And a few hours more
To be fair, this Finnish trip is a solid 70 km shorter than the Texas trip, Google is just predicting it will take you longer.
The east-west trip in Texas from Orange to El Paso is 1380 km, but only takes about 12.5 hours because a big chunk of the highway has an 80 mph (130 kph) speed limit
But the finnish trip is 1387 km, from orange to el paso trough san antonio 1373 km. So the finnish fastest route is longer in length too. But yeah we don’t have as fast highways whicg makes the trip way longer in time
Sure, but really from the Louisiana border to the New Mexico border along that route is 1419 km. This morning it says that’ll take just over 13 hours because you’d hit rush hour traffic in Houston
Why is fuel called gas
It’s an abbreviation for “gasoline”
Yeah wait hold up I’m in the US where we CALL IT THAT and mine says fuel
Even though it knows I have an EV, which makes it double funny
Edit: funnier - it shows as “gas” in Android Auto but “fuel” on maps when not in AA. Both know I’m an EV and show “charging stations” and not “gas stations”
Like so many things we Americans get bitched at for saying, it’s because that’s what the Brits used to call it.
A British man named John Cassell sold a brand of petroleum-based fuel trademarked as Cazeline. This eventually became Gazeline and then genericized as gasoline, shortened to “gas.”
One could ask why only “gasoline” is called “petrol” elsewhere in the world when several other fuels such as kerosene and diesel are also petroleum-based. Why isn’t diesel also called “petrol?”
The problem with “gas” is, that it’s a state of matter. Usually the word gas is used for natural gas that you’d use in a gas stove. Some vehicles are even upgraded with an actual gas tank, making it double confusing.
Yup. And Norway is even longer if for some reason that’s not enough. In the UK you can also make a 1000+ km trip from north to south, same in France, Italy, Germany or Ukraine. In Turkey you can even leave Europe, drive 12 more hours and still be in Turkey.
americans love to completely fucking forget the nordics exist, as if we’re not more rural than large parts of the US lmao, and yet we’re able to have trains and other good things.
I think american conservatives just hate our existence for proving their shitty opinions wrong
Now someone reverse it for me, what’s the MOST amount of countries you can drive through in 13 hours?
Extra Points if you count all the confederate flags and truck nuts that you see along the way!
That’s fine, just don’t do this as a drinking game, unless you want to die.
I know you mean from alcohol poisoning, but also don’t drink and drive.
Yeah, that’s not the good kind of D&D.
