{"id":52456,"date":"2026-06-03T20:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=52456"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:11:51","slug":"geography-how-far-is-old-world-from-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-how-far-is-old-world-from-new-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography: how far is Old World from New World?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor mentions a distance comparison.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nI mention in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-brazil-is-further-east-than-newfoundland\/\">post from July 30, 2022,<\/a> that Brazil is further east than Newfoundland. Yet, how close is Brazil to Africa, relatively speaking?\n<\/p>\nThe distance between Natal, Brazil, and Monrovia, Liberia, is 3025 km. By comparison, the distance from Vancouver to Toronto is 3359 km.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, believe it or not, South America is closer to Africa than Vancouver is to Toronto. Interesting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.distance.to\/Vancouver\/Toronto\">distance.to: Vancouver -> Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.distance.to\/Natal-Brazil\/Monrovia-Liberia\">distance.to: Natal->Monrovia<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor mentions a distance comparison. The following is according to my understanding. I mention in my post from July 30, 2022, that Brazil is further east than Newfoundland. Yet, how close is Brazil to Africa, relatively &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-how-far-is-old-world-from-new-world\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geography: how far is Old World from New World?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4268],"class_list":["post-52456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","tag-distances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52460,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52456\/revisions\/52460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}