Name: What's the Longest Drivable Distance on Earth?
Uploaded: 2018-06-10T13:56:13.000Z
Duration: 4 min 46 s
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So here's the question: what's the single longest drivable distance between two points

on earth, but before you tell me to go drive around a roundabout infinite times, let me

place this caveat: this route has to be the shortest one between two points on earth.

Ok, so there are basically four distinct major road systems on earth the biggest one being

The one spanning Europe, Asia, and Africa.

These three continents are all connected by land so it makes sense that they're all

It's impossible to cross from Africa to Asia fully on land because of this—the Suez

This is the canal that makes the trip from Europe to Asia by boat this instead of this.

The only physical connection between the two continents is therefore the three bridges

spanning the canal, but the road system is still contiguous so it still counts as one

Speaking of big things, the 6th largest country in the world and 1st smallest continent, Australia,

has its own major road system but there's not much to say about it other than if you

go a little bit this way you get to America—both of them.

Much like Africa and Asia, the Americas technically are not connected because of a man-made canal—the

But that's not a problem because there are multiple bridges spanning the narrow waterway.

Not a single road crosses this desolate swampland spanning over the Panama-Columbia border.

The area is overrun with para-military forces and drug-lords.

There's just not enough demand to make braving the marshy and dangerous area to build a road

So that's why North America and South America have two completely separate, unconnected

Basically, here, here, here, here, or here.

The North American road system goes as far north as Prudhoe Bay in Canada's Canada,

Alaska, and as far south as Yaviza in Panama but this only clocks in 7,500 miles.

That is six straight days of driving, but it's not even close to the longest route.

In fact, quite understandably, North America, South America, and Australia all don't have

Now, common logic would suggest that the longest continuous route would go between somewhere

in Southern Africa to somewhere else is eastern Russia, but common logic is wrong.

First, almost every direct route heading up the African continent routes via the west

side of the continent which brings a traveller to here: Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic

Just across the river from Kinshasa is Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo but no bridge

The fastest routes between Southern Africa and Asia also almost always route through

Western Europe rather than the Middle East since the highways are better developed and

faster, but this means that a traveller has to cross the Mediterranean by ferry which

In Europe, the most extreme point on the contiguous road network is Sagres, Portugal and then

you can drive as far east as the banks of the Aldan River in Russia.

That's 8,437 total miles, but that's still not quite the farthest you can drive.

It's a even longer distance to drive here—Khasan, Russia.

Khasan is the only Russian town to border North Korea and it is also the most extreme

With no ferries and only two customs checkpoints thanks to the European Union, you can therefore

drive continuously for 8,726 miles in 6 days and 19 hours from Sagres, Portugal to Khasan,

Russia, and that is the longest continuous, direct driving route in the world.

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