The primary reason that the distance from Seattle to corresponding centers of traditionally eastern and traditionally western cultures, is important t

The primary reason that the distance from Seattle to corresponding centers of traditionally eastern and traditionally western cultures, is important to us, is that most of the historic centers that are closer to Seattle than other historic centers are, are also be closer to nearly all other large cities that are nearly equidistant from these centers, and that are located between the lines that we currently call 40 degrees west latitude and 175 degrees east latitude, than those other historic centers are, and that this gives us a way of seeing regions in our world that helps us see important facts about the history of our world. We can see these regions by dividing areas of our world based on how far different areas are from these large cities. All areas that are closer than a certain distance would be said to be in one region while all areas that are further than a certain distance would be said to be in another region, and areas that are between one line of distance and another would form geographic belts that would illustrate important facts about the history of our world. The lines that divide these belts are roughly the same when they are defined by distances from different large cities that are nearly equidistant from corresponding historic centers of traditionally eastern and western cultures, and that are between what we now call 40 degrees west latitude and 175 degrees east latitude, though the distances from each city that define these lines will be very different. For example in terms of distances from Seattle the area between the line that runs 10500 K from Seattle, and the line, and the line that runs 11800 k from Seattle is the area that has been the home of the oldest civilizations with writing in our world, with these areas consisting primarily of a large part of what we now call the ‘Middle East”, Northern India, Northern Pakistan, and Bangladesh, with civilizations being younger the farther we move away from this belt both moving closer to the points such as Seattle that are nearly equidistant from historic centers of traditionally eastern and western cultures, and moving farther away from these points, (with culturally significant regions also divided by lines lying about 1500 k closer to Seattle and about 1500 k further from Seattle from these two lines, so that areas closer than 9,000 k to Seattle and farther than 13,000 from Seattle, are, in terms of advanced civilizations, the youngest parts of our world, with areas between these lines and the lines marking the belt of the oldest civilizations with writing in our world, being the homes of middle aged civilizations that fall between civilizations in these areas, with the exception of parts of South America, which though they are further from Seattle than these lines, are the homes of younger civilizations.)

Roughly the same geographical belt that we find in this way and define as lying between 10500k and 11800k from Seattle, can also be defined as lying between 11500 k and 12800 k from San Francisco, California, (another of the large cities that are nearly equidistant between historical East and historical west.), and can also be defined as lying between two lines of at varying distances from all large cities that are nearly equidistant from corresponding historic centers of traditionally eastern and western cultures, and that are between what we now call 40 degrees west latitude and 175 degrees east latitude, with these lines being farther away from Los Angeles, San Diego, and Tijuana than from San Francisco, closer to Portland than to San Francisco, closer to Vancouver than to Seattle, and nearly the same distance from Sacramento and San Francisco,

These lines do not divide our world into regions of equal area, because almost exactly half of the surface area of our world is closer to any point than 10,000 k surface distance, and almost exactly half the surface area of our world lies between 10,000 k and 20,000 k surface distance from any point, with much more than half of our world’s surface area lying between 5,000 k and 15,000 k surface distance from any point on our earth. 20,000 k from any point on our earth is almost exactly where we will find the point on the surface of our earth that is furthest from any point, (that point’s antipode). The length of a kilometer and the length of a meter are defined so these facts will be true (with a meter being chosen to be the length of one 10 millionth of the due north-south distance between the equator and either pole). This is the reason we find these relationships. if our world’s equator were the same length as the due north to south distance from one pole to the other and back again, this would make our world a perfect sphere, and then these numbers would be exact. Because the length of our equator is a little longer than this, these numbers are not exact, but instead sometimes these lines and these points are a little bit closer to other points than these distances, and sometimes they are a little bit farther away. But the three geographic belts defined by the lines described above are close to being equal in area, with each of these belts covering approximately 10 % of the earth’s surface area.

Seattle’s position as the city that is most nearly equidistant between historic centers of eastern and western cultures, becomes clear when one looks at distances between Seattle and these centers. Parts of the Seattle metropolitan area are exactly equidistant between the most northeasterly centers of eastern culture and the most northwesterly centers of western culture, (though Vancouver is also very close to being equidistant between these centers). The nearest large historic center of Eastern Culture to Seattle is Tokyo, and the nearest large historic center of Western Culture to Seattle is London. Parts of the Western edge of Seattle’s near Eastern suburbs are exactly the same distance form the downtowns of each of these cities (a line that runs nearly north to south with a slight tilt to northwest to southeast that is approximately 6.8K east by northeast of downtown Seattle at it’s nearest point to downtown Seattle, that is app. 7,720.5 kilometers from the downtown of each of these cities at this point.), when the area of the greatest recent development in London is chosen as London’s downtown, and parts of Lake Washington, and Mercer Island, just east of Seattle are exactly the same distance from downtown Tokyo and London, (app. 5K east by northeast of DT Seattle, and app. 7,718K from each at it’s nearest point to DT Seattle), when more traditional locations are chosen as downtown London. Different parts of the Seattle metropolitan area are also exactly the same distance from downtown Hamburg and Nagoya, (again a line tilted slightly to northwest to southeast that comes closest to downtown Seattle at a point approximately 4 K West by southwest of downtown Seattle, located approximately 7,931 K from each of these downtowns probably located near Seattle in Puget Sound), from Essen, Germany and Kyoto, (a line located approximately 2.5k west by southwest of Downtown Seattle, located approximately 8,018 K from each downtown, and also probably in Puget Sound, from Koln, (also called Cologne) and Osaka, (a line tilted slightly to northwest to southeast that comes nearest to Seattle’s downtown at a point approximately 1 k east by northeast of downtown Seattle, that is app. 8,061 from each city at that point), from Osaka and Paris, (again a line tilted slightly to northwest to southeast as all lines that are equidistant between historical centers of eastern and western culture are tilted slightly to northwest to southeast, that comes nearest to Seattle’s downtown at a point approximately five eighths of a K east by northeast of downtown Seattle, that is app. 8,063k from each city at that point), From downtown Berlin and Okayama, (with a line running app. 11.5k west by northwest of DT Seattle being located approximately app. 8,154k from each city at it’s nearest point to downtown Seattle), from Shenyang 41°47′44″N, 123°26′53″ 8181.045 k to S, Okayama and Frankfurt, ( a line running app. 19..5k east by northeast of DT Seattle at its nearest point to DT Seattle that is app 8,184k from each city at this point, from downtown Hiroshima and Dresden (parts of Seattle’s eastern suburbs app. 10 K east by northeast of DT Seattle at their nearest point to DT Seattle, and app. 8287 K from each city at that point, with downtown Vilna, (also called Vilnius) being app. 10.5 K closer to downtown Seattle than downtown Hiroshima is, with Pyongyang being approximately 11 K farther from downtown Seattle than downtown Hiroshima is, and being approximately 8k closer to downtown Seattle than downtown Dresden, and with Seoul being approximately 47K farther from downtown Seattle than downtown Dresden is), from Lisboa, (also called Lisbon), and Busan, (formerly called Pusan), (a line app. 20.5K west by southwest of downtown Seattle at its nearest point, that is located approximately 8,407 k from each city at that point), from Moscow, and Busan, (a line app. 16K west by southwest of downtown Seattle, that is located approximately 8,412 k from each city at that point), from Minsk, and Busan, (a line 12.5K west by southwest of downtown Seattle at its nearest point, that is located approximately 8,415 k from each city at that point), from Warszawa, (also called Warsaw), and Busan, (a line approximately 10K west by southwest of downtown Seattle, that is located approximately 8,418 k from each city at that point), from Praha, (also called Prague), and Busan, (a line app. 7.4k west by southwest of downtown Seattle at its nearest point that is located approximately 8,420.5 k from each city at that point), from Fukuoka, Japan and Madrid, Spain, ( a line app. 32 k east by northeast of DT Seattle at it’s nearest point and app 8503k from each city at that point, from Dalian China and Madrid, (a line app. 13k east by northeast of DT Seattle at its nearest point, and app. 8,522k from each city at this point), from Madrid and Gwangju, South Korea, ( a line app. 7k east by northeast of DT Seattle at its nearest point, and app. 8542k from each city at that point), and from downtown Nagasaki and Auschwitz, (a line tilted slightly to northwest to southeast that comes nearest to Seattle’s downtown about 1 tenth of a K west of Seattle’s downtown being located app. 8, 573 k from each of these places.

Parts of the Seattle metropolitan area are also located at exactly the same distance from Haerbin (also Harbin) China, and Birmingham England, ( a line that comes nearest to downtown Seattle at a point app. 26.8k east by northeast of downtown Seattle, and that is app. 7,535k from each city, while the nearest ‘Old World’ city to Seattle, Sapporo is located 7053.19 k from to Seattle. Seattle is also close to being located at the same distance, from Milano (also called Milan), Wien (also called Vienna), Beijing, Tianjin 39.125° 117.195° 8741.59 k to S, and Venezia (also Venice), (an average distance of 8706.2 k from these cities with the closest of these cities, with Milano at app 8665.7 k, Wien being located app 8664.3k from Seattle, Beijing at app. 8712.5k distance, and Venice at app 8790.2 distance), from Roma (also called Rome), Shanghai, Nanjng (also called Nanking), and Napoli (also called Naples), Hangzhou 30°15′N, 120°10′E 9369.192 k to S, (an average distance of approximately 9239.3 from these cities with each city in order located at distances of app. 9141 K, 9213 K, 9289K, and 9314),

And Seattle is close to being located at the same distance, from Xi’an 34°16′00″N, 108°54′00″ 9602.767 k to S, Wuhan 30°34′21″N, 114°16′45″E 9669.916 k to S, Istanbul, Dakar 14.6929° -17.4466 9894.369 k to S, Athhinai (also Athens), Toshkent (also Tashkent), Chongqing, Chengdu 30°39′49″N, 104°04′00″ 10177.511 k to S, Shantou 23°22′N, 116°42′E 10188.312 k to S, Guangzhou (formerly called canton), Shenzhen, and Xiang Gang, (also called Hong Kong), Dongguan 23°2′N, 113°43′E 10392.559 k to S, (app. an average of 10,168K from each of these cities with these cities in order at app, 9789 9870.145k, 9946, 10093, 10167, 10411, 10415, and 10360 k)

Balkh (also Bactrra) 36.75, 66.9, 10615.096 k to S 10423.3 k to V. Maynila, (Mania), 14.5997° 120.9812° 10703.431 k to S, Tehran 35.6962, 51.423, 10756.089 k to S, 10575.928 k to V,

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Dimashq (also called Damascus and “Ash-Sham ) 33.513, 36.292, 10770.269 k to S 10610.635k to V 11808.903 k to SF, 10998.451 k to Portl, Kunming 25°02′30″N, 102°42′18″E 10787.575 k to s, Nazareth 32d42m07s, 35d18m12s, 10833.977 k to S 10676.319 k to V, 11866.405 k to s.f., Yerushallayim (also Jerusalem), 31d47m, 35d13m, 10930.25 k to S, 10773.194 k to V, 11960.579 k to s.f., 11157.246 k to Portl, Bethlehem, 31d42m11s, 35d11m44s, 10938.325 k to S 10781.345 k to V, Baghdad, 33d20m, 44d26m, 10942.596 k to S 10771.124 k to V, 12012.989 k to s.f., 11174.86 k to Portl, Al-Qāhirah (also called Cairo) 30.058, 31.229, 11006.367 k to S 10857.245 k to V, 12010.154 k to s.f., 11229.286 k to Portl, Hanoi, 21.024, 105.8538, 11014.678 k to S 10842.023 k to V, Lahore 31d35m, 74d21m, 11076.419 k to S 10882.058 k to V, 12130.131 k to s.f., 11295.305 k to port, Faisalabad 31° 24' 38" N, 73° 5' 19" O 11117.871 k to s, Lumbini, 27.467155, 83.274908, 11304.368 k to S 11110.777 k to V, 12302.035 k to s.f., Delhi 28.61, 77.23, 11339.222 k to S 11144.629 k to V, 12375.392 k to s.f., 11553.364 k to Port, Bodh Gaya 24.695102, 84.991275, 11345.858 k to S, 12521.255 k to s.f., Dhaka 23d42m, 90d30m 11457.794 k to S 11268.372 k to V, 12382.145 k to s.f., 11640.486 to port, Abidjan 5.3364° -4.0266°, 11624.947 k to s, Kolkatta, (formerly called Calcutta), 22.5697d n, 88.3697d e, 11649.214 k to S 11458.797 k to V, 12591.981 k to s.f., 11640.486 k to port,

11800.8 k, Accra 5.553° -0.2246, 11860.737 k, Yangon (formerly called Rangoon) 16.7982° 96.1647 11910.239 k to S 11728.816 k to V, Karachi 24°51′36″N, 67°00′36″E 11923.994 k to S 11731.422 k to V, Ho Chi Minh City, (formerly Saigon), 10°45′N, 106°40′E 11940.795 k to S 11778.564 k to V, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (formerly called Bangkok) 13°45′N 100°31 11994.579 k to S 11820.48 k to V, Lagos 6.4524° 3.4136 12016.136 k to S 11964.828 k to V, Ahmedabad 23°02′N 72°35′E / 23.03, 72.58 12040.188 k to s, Al-Mukarramah, Makkah province, also called Mecca) 21.408° 39.8178° 12155.633 k to 11995.296 k to V, Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) 18°58′N 72°49′E / 18.96, 72.82 12478.298 to S 12283.789 k to V, Pune 18°32′N 73°51′E / 18.53, 73.85 12503.638 k to s, Hyderabad 17°21′58″N 78°28′34″E / 17.366, 78.476 12515.779 k to s, Chennai (formerly called Madras)13°05′N 80°16′E / 13.09, 80.27 12918.254 k to s, Bangalura (Bangalore) 12°58′13″N 77°33′37″E / 12.970214, 77.56029 .13011.103 k to s,

Addis Abeba 9°2′0″, 38°42′0″ 13458.207 k to S 13306.373 to V, Djakarta -6.1333° 106.75 13481.218 k to S 13340.638 k to V,, Kinshasa 4°16′S, 15°17′ 13736.378 k to S 12851.178 k to V, Luanda -8.8139° 13.2377°, 14024.057 k to s, Kampala 0°19′N, 32°35′E, 14168.14 k to S 14039.805 k to V, Kigali 1°56′38″S, 30°03′34″E 14293.182 k to S 14175.298 k to V, Nairobi 1°17′0″S, 36°49′0″E, 14494.477 k to S.

the lines that run approximately 8940 k from seattle, 9830 and the line that runs approximately 10,760 k from Seattle, 11780 from seattle,

Lucknow Lakhnau 26°51′38″N 80°54′57″E / 26.860556, 80.915833 11435.4 k to s,

Patna 25°21′N 85°07′E / 25.35, 85.12 11470.849 k to s, 12449.433 k to s.f.,

Kanpur 26°27′39″N 80°20′00″E / 26.460738, 80.333405 11493.69 k to s,

what is most extraordinary about Seattle’s location is that it is exactly equidistant from so many centers of far northeastern and far northwestern culture. It is extremely unlikely that there would be any city located on the line that is exactly equidistant between any pair of cities that are distant from each other, and it is even much more unlikely that any city would be exactly equidistant between any particular pair of the most northeasterly and most northwesterly large historic centers of eastern and western cultures, (as Tokyo and London, and Osaka and Paris are clearly the two most northeasterly and northwesterly pairs of historically large centers of traditional eastern and western cultures in our world), and it is even less likely that any one city would be exactly equidistant between so many different pairs of corresponding centers of traditional eastern and western cultures, as Seattle is . I do not believe that any other city in our world matches Seattle in this regard. Many other cities on the English-speaking west coast of North America come close, though, especially Vancouver, and also San Francisco and Portland. All four of these cities are about equally close to being equidistant between older centers of Eastern and Western Cultures, (These centers being located in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in the east, and in what we call the Middle East in the west), with all four of the cities we are looking at on the west coast of North America roughly equidistant between the corresponding older centers of eastern and western cultures, but far from exactly equidistant between these centers.

Dt Seattle – app 47.611, -122.337, Westlake Park (not space needle 47.62042360, -122.348947.62042360° -122.34890278, not Seattle Central Library 47.606111, –122.33277, not University of Washington 47.6557° N 122.3084° ), DT Tokyo probably app. 35.6875 d north, 139.705555 d E, (Shinjuku station) probably 7713.835 k from DT S, (not 7712.7568.645 k), app. 7573.434 k to DT Vancouver), (not app 35.686 d N, 139.764 d E (Yasukuni shrine), not app. 35.6941667,d N, 139.7430556 d E (Marunouchi), not 35.6783333 N 139.7441667 E (Tokyo National Diet Library) 7712.05 k to dt S 7711.366 k to U of W Suzz Brary, not app. 35.6758 d N, 139.745 d E (National Diet), and not 35.6847528 d N, 139.7524583 d E (Imperial Palace), DT London probably app 51.5036111d N, 0.0183333 d W,(Canary Wharf) probably 7727.455 k to dt S, (not 7723.17 k to DT S), probably 7602.882 k to DT V), (not app. 51.513866, d N 0.09825 d W (St. Paul’s) , not 51.514903, 0.082316 W (Bishopsgate financial district), not 51.5294444 -0.1269444 (British Library) 7720.582 k to dt S 7715.264 k to U of W Suzz Brary, not app 51.5, -0.125 W (Houses of Parliament), and not 51.5010389 d N, 0.1424722 d W (Buckingham Palace), Dt Vancouver app 49.2805, -123.12564, DT S.F. app 37.7952, -122.4029, Portland 45.52304, -122.640155, Los Angeles 34.05101, -118.254355, Hamburg 53° 34′ N, 10° 2′ 7926.751 k to S 7789.153 k to V, Nagoya 35° 10′ N, 136° 54′ O 7934.852 k to S V to V 35n10, 136e55 7933.79 k to S, 7787.046 k to V, Riga 56.9496° 24.104, 8007.026 k to S, Essen 51°27′3″N 7°0′47″E 8015.078 k to S 7884.444 to V, Kyoto, 35° 00′ N, 135° 46′ O 8020.142 k to S 7872.066 k to V, DT Koln, (also called cologne) app.50.9413, 6.958, app. 8060.39 k to S, (7930.561 k to V), DT Osaka app. 34d41m, 135d30m, 8062.372 k to S, 7914.428 k to V (not Osaka Prefectural Nakanoshima Library 34°41'37"N 135°30'11"E 8060.495 k to U of W Suzz Brary, Paris app. 48d51m44s, 02d21m03s, app. 8063.623 k to S (not Bibliothèque nationale de France app. 48°50′01″N, 2°22′33″E 8062.568 k to U 0f W Suzz Brary), app. 7943.739 k to V, Bonn 50°44′N, 7°6′E, Kobe 34° 41′ N, 135° 11′ O 8082.425 k to S, 7934.041 k to V, Berlin 52d31m, 13d25m, 8142.811 k to S, , 8002.109 k to V, Okayama, 34d39m, 133d55m, 8164.889 k, Shenyang 41°47′44″N, 123°26′53″ 8181.045 k to S, Frankfurt 50d07m, 08d41m, 8203.577 k to S, 8072.436, Tianjin 39.125° 117.195° 8741.59 k to S, to V, Vilna (also Vilnius) 54d41m, 25d 16m, 8267.204 k to S 8109.941 k to V, Hiroshima app. 34.3855289 n, 132.4516667, 8277.872 k to S, (8126.184 k to V), , Pyongyang (39.0333, 125.75). 8289.154 k to S V, to V, Dresden 51°02′N 13°44′E, 8297.498 k to S, (8158.121 k to V), Seoul 37.541° 126.986°, app. 8344.373 k to S, (app. 8181.48 k to V), Lisboa 38°42′N, 9°11′W 8386.9 k to S, Moscow app. 55d45m08s, 37d36m56s, 8396.393 k to S, (8225.818 k to V), Minsk, 53d54m 27d34m, 8402.722 k to S, Warszawa (also Warsaw) 52° 13' N, 21° 02' O 8408.025 k to S 8257.849 k to V, Praha (also Prague) 50°05′14″N, 14°25′16″E 8413.207 k to S, Busan app. 35.1 N, 129.033333333 E, app. 8,427.97 K from S, Fukuoka, 33D35M, 130D24M, 8470.921 k to S, Dalian China app. 39.03333333 N, 121.7666666 E, app. 8508.83 K to S, Madrid 40°24′N, 3°41′W 8534.784 k to S, Gwangju, S. Korea app. 35.16666666 N, 126.9166666666 app. 8548.5 K to S, Auschwitz 50°02′09″N, 19°10′42″ 8572.923 k to S 8427.211 k to V, Nagasaki 32° 45′ N, 129° 52′ 8573.144 k to S 8420.267 k to V, Krakow, 50°04', 19°57', Seattle to Milan 45° 27′ 50.56′′ N, 9° 11′ 29.64′′ E, 8665.737 k (not 45.49115009495849, 9.163049845422094 arco della pace, , to Wien (also Vienna. And Wean) 48°12′31″N, 16°22′19″E, app. 8666.287 k, Marseille 43.2972° 5.381 8707.204 k to S, to Beijing 39°54′20″N, 116°23′29″E, 39°54′12″N, 116°23′30″E, 39°54′26″N, 116°23′29″E, (39.905556,116.391389N, app. 8712.505 k to S, Barcelona 41.3856° 2.1702 8736.591 k to S, Tianjin 39.125° 117.195° 8741.59 k to S, Genova 8754.002 k to S, to Venice 45° 26′ 3′′ N, 12° 20′ 20′′ E, app. 8790.22, k to S, Budapest 47.499° 19.044° 8823.467 k to S, 8792.25 k, 8680.421 k to V, Kyiv (also Kiev) 50°27′00″N, 30°31′24″E 8831.828 k to S, 8671.346 k to V, Bologna 8842.96 k to S, Qingdao 36° 05' N, 120° 20' O 8844.665 k to S,

Firenze (also Florence) 43.773232° 11.255992 8909.359 k to S 43°46′18″N, 11°15′13″ 8909.415 k to S, 8940 k, Jinan 36.6647222n, 117.0013889e, 8972.039 k to S,

Taiyuan 37°52′10″N 112°33′37″E 9088.189 k to S, Beograd (also Belgrade) 44°49′14″N, 20°27′44″E 9139.654 k to S,, Roma (also called Rome) 41°54′N, 12°30′ 9140.603 k to S 9014.051 k to V, , Sarajevo 43°52′0″N, 18°25′0″E 9167.143 k to S, Srebenica 44°06′N, 19°18′, Za He (also called Shanghai) 31°10′N, 121°28′E, ? 31°14′30″N, 121°29′42″E (31.241667, 121.495), 9212.906 k to S 9050.789 k to V, Odessa 46°28′N, 30°44′ 9257.76 k to S, 9099.381 k to V, Nanjing (formerly called Nanking) 32°03′N, 118°46′ 9289.01 k to S, 9122.541 k to V, Napoli (also called Naples and Napule) 40°50′N, 14°15′E 9314.338 k to S 9186.051 k to V, Zhengzhou 34°45′37″N, 113°38′31″E 9319.692 k to S, Bucuresti (also Bucharest) 44.4167° 26.1 9352.588 k to S 9202.776 k to V, Hangzhou 30°15′N, 120°10′E 9369.192 k to S, Xi’an 34°16′00″N, 108°54′00″ 9602.767 k to S, Wuhan 30°34′21″N, 114°16′45″E 9669.916 k to S, Taibei (also Taipei) 25°2′N 121°38′E 9742.643 k to S, Istanbul 41.01°′N, 28.98° 9788.543 k to S 9636.053 k to V, Fuzhou 26° 4' 16" N, 119° 18' 13" O 9791.225 k to S,

Dakar 14.6929° -17.4466 9894.369 k to S, 9866.6365, Athhinai (also Athens) 37°58′N, 23°43′ 9946.357 k to S, Tbilisi 41°43′N, 44°47′E 10027.777 k to s, Toshkent (also Tashkent) 41°16′N, 69°13′E 10093.028 k to S 9900.571 k to V, Chongqing 29°33′00″N, 106°30′25″ 10167.422 k to S 9989.259 k to V, Chengdu 30°39′49″N, 104°04′00″ 10177.511 k to S, Shantou 23°22′N, 116°42′E 10188.312 k to S, Yerevan, 40d10m11s, 44d31m12s, 10194.218 k to S, Baku 40° 23' N 49° 52' E 10226.352 k to s, Guang Zhou, (formerly known as Canton) 23d06m32s 113d15m53s, 10411.499 k to S 10246.898 k, Shenzhen 22d33m, 114d06m, 10414.743 k to S, Dongguan 23°2′N, 113°43′E10392.559 k to S, Xiang Gang (also known as Hong Kong) 22d11m00s, 114d96m00s, 10360.482 k to S, Guiyang 26°35′N, 106°43′E 10439.955 k to S.

Yokohama 35° 26′ N, 139° 38′ O, 7736.122 k to S, St. Petersburg 59°56′0″N, 30°20′0″E 7827.776 k to S 7661.811 to V, Shizuoka 34° 58′ N, 138° 22′ O, , 7854.464 k to S,

Stockholm 59°21′N, 18°04′E 7612.849 k to S 7459.193 k to V, Helsinki 60° 10' N; 24° 56' O 7695.322 k to s, Tallinn 59°26' N 24°45' E, 7767.253 k to S, Copenhagen 55° 40' N, 12° 34' O 7811.312 k to s, Amsterdam 52°22′23″N, 4°53′32 7886.922 k to S 7719.37 k to V, Changchun 43° 54' N, 125° 12' O 7910.334 k to S, Haerbin (also Harbin) China 45d45m, 126d38m, 7681.54 k to s, Niigata 37° 54′ N, 139° 02′ O 7585.555 k to S, Birmingham England 52d28m59s, -01d53m37s, 7562.174 k to S, Manchester England : 53°28′43″N, 2°14′36″W 7461.382 k to s, Sendai 38° 16′ N, 140° 52′ O 7441.061 k to s, Oslo 59° 54' 36" N, 10° 45' 00" O 7352.088 k to s, Baile Atha Cliath (also called Dublin) 53.3472, -6.2592 7298.962 k to s, Edinburgh (also Embra, Embro, Edinburrie, and Dun Eidann) 55° 57' 00" N, 3° 13' 12" W 7210.16 k to s, Béal Feirste (also Bilfawst and Belfast) 7209.687 k to s, 54.597, -5.93, Glesca (also Glesgae, Glaschu, and Glasgow) 55° 52' 12" N, 4° 16' 12" W 7173.831 k to s, Sapporo 43° 03′ N, 141° 21′ O 7053.19 k to S 6898.852 k to V.

Minneapolis 44.977° -93.266, New York City 40°43′N 74°00′W, Chicago 41°54′N 87°39′W, Miami 25°47′16″N 80°13′″W, Ciudad de Mexico 19°24′N 99°7′W, Caracas 10°30′N 66°55′W, Rio de Janeiro , Sao Paulo 23°32′36″S, 46°37′59″W, Buenos Aires 34°36′13″S, 58°22′54″W,

Most of us have a very poor sense of distances in our world, because we usually see a distorted projection of our world in the maps we use. It is important for us to correct this because a large part of the story of our world’s history is determined by the geography of our world, with certain cultures spreading to certain areas primarily because they were closer to those areas, than other cultures were. In spite of the great advantages in mobility that traditionally western and especially European cultures enjoyed in the historic period in which they spread their culture through colonization, The spread of their culture was still greatly influenced by the fact that Europe was closer to most of the areas it’s culture spread to, (including South America, Africa, and most of North America), than were areas of traditionally eastern culture, including the area of Northeast Asia, which is historically most analogous to Europe, because with regard to written civilization, and with regard to organized religions that have many followers today, it is the younger area of historically eastern culture in the same way that that Europe is the younger area of historically western culture, and it has inherited these things from people from the older area of historically eastern civilization in the same way that Europe has inherited these thing from the older area of historically western civilization. In the areas that are the same distance from Europe and Northeast Asia, we see a different story, with historically eastern culture having had a much greater influence on these areas than on other areas, and with the current extent to which historically western cultures have had a greater influence on these areas, possibly being a temporary phenomenon because these areas are still very young and because their cultures are not close to being fixed yet. This region is the western coast of North America, and, though until this point in time these areas have been most influenced by historically western civilizations, the next large city we find going west from this area is the city of Honolulu, and this city seems to have been more influenced by traditionally eastern cultures than by traditionally western cultures, (with this assessment being based in part on the fact that most of the people in the Honolulu urban area are descended from people from Northeast Asia). Honolulu is closer to being located at the same distance from Europe and Northeast Asia, than are nearly all areas European culture has spread to (including South America, Africa, and Eastern North America), and in terms of global distances is not far from the Western coast of North America.

We should not try to make distances on our maps accurate by making directions inaccurate on those maps, though many people have tried to do this. We should instead make both distances and directions accurate by using sinusoidal equal-area projection maps with longitude lines drawn on them. These maps can be accurate because they will not try to show the surface of our globe as a rectangle, (a practice that will always lead to inaccuracy), but will instead show the circumference of our world becoming smaller the farther we get from the equator until it finally becomes 0 at the poles, and in this way will show our world as it truly is. This is achieved by sinusoidal maps because this narrowing is described by the sine function (hence the name sinusoidal), as the circumference of our world does not get smaller at a constant rate as we move away from the equator, but instead gets smaller at a slower rate at first, with this rate increasing as we get further from the equator. If we want north and south to be straight up or down on our maps as often as possible, more than we want maps that show our world as being as connected as a flat map can show it, we can achieve this by making our maps interrupted projections that show blank spaces between different sections of the map, though we will not need to do this to see what direction is north or south at any point, so long as we draw enough longitude lines on our map, and always remember that north and south follow these lines, and that on our map north and south follow curved lines, just as most of these lines will be curved even if our map is an uninterrupted projection. The desire to straighten these curved lines is the desire that has led us into the error of drawing rectangularly shaped maps.

World maps should usually be drawn with the line that we currently call 113 degrees west, (or a line slightly west of this line), as their center line, to focus our attention on the point 180 degrees from the line that best divides historically eastern cultures from historically western cultures, that should be near the place where these cultures will first come together to form a new culture that is stronger than either eastern or western culture can be separately. If we choose to make our maps interrupted projections of our world with the line that we currently call 113 degrees west as their center line, then the first two interruptions we make should occur at the lines we currently call 33 degrees west and 163 degrees west, because these lines pass through oceans and through sparsely populated areas, and because they come closer than most other lines that do this, to dividing our world into three parts of equal area.