Did you know this? The city of St. John’s, in Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada), holds an impressive geographical curiosity: despite being in the same country as Vancouver, in the far west, St. John’s is closer to places like Finland, the Sahara Desert, and even Brazil than to Vancouver itself!
This is because St. John’s is located at the easternmost tip of North America, almost “looking” directly at Europe and the South Atlantic. Vancouver, on the Pacific coast, is thousands of kilometers away—practically on the other side of the continent.
It’s a perfect example of how geography can surprise: even within the same country, distances can be so great that they end up bringing cities on other continents closer together. 
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