[Swizec]

Huh you’re right. Maybe I was remembering border to border air distance. Was looking this up a few years ago when friends were asking how far Ukraine was from my family.

Here’s a more fun context instead: after college I went on a roadtrip and covered 13 countries in about 4000 miles.

[pvg]

You started some sort of Europeshrinking conspiracy here, check out the sibling comment that's off by a similar factor but for area.