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📏 🇺🇸 District of Columbia · US state
The whole world, measured in DCs
Sydney is 683 DCs away. Hover over (or tap) anywhere on the map to see how many DCs away it is.
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How we measure
1 DC = 23 km (14.3 mi), the longest straight line you can draw across District of Columbia. Distances run along the Earth’s surface from the nearest edge of District of Columbia, so anywhere inside it is 0 DCs away.
The farthest you can get from District of Columbia
870 DCs
20,004 km (12,430 mi) away, in the Indian Ocean (Nearest land: Western Australia, Australia, 1,191 km away). That’s near the exact opposite side of the planet.
Famous cities, in DCs
| City | DCs | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 14 DCs | 321 km |
| Mexico | 131 DCs | 3,023 km |
| United States | 160 DCs | 3,684 km |
| United Kingdom | 256 DCs | 5,891 km |
| France | 268 DCs | 6,157 km |
| Italy | 313 DCs | 7,208 km |
| Brazil | 335 DCs | 7,712 km |
| United States | 338 DCs | 7,764 km |
| Russia | 340 DCs | 7,816 km |
| Argentina | 365 DCs | 8,384 km |
| Nigeria | 379 DCs | 8,720 km |
| Egypt | 406 DCs | 9,341 km |
| Japan | 474 DCs | 10,895 km |
| China | 484 DCs | 11,142 km |
| South Africa | 552 DCs | 12,703 km |
| India | 558 DCs | 12,843 km |
| Australia | 683 DCs | 15,704 km |
More fun in DCs
- It takes 1,742 DCs to wrap all the way around the equator.
- A tunnel straight through the middle of the Earth would be 554 DCs long.
- The Moon is 16,700 DCs away.
- Mount Everest is 0.38 DCs tall.