Countries Closest to the U. S.

Name the countries which are geographically closest to the United States.

As the crow flies - distances estimated

Counts overseas regions (marked in blue), but not overseas territories

For example, Hawaii counts but Guam does not

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Distance	Country
0 mi	Canada
0 mi	Mexico
2 mi	Russia
53 mi	Bahamas
93 mi	Cuba
471 mi	Jamaica
578 mi	Belize
579 mi	Haiti
608 mi	Honduras
653 mi	Guatemala
665 mi	Dominican Republic
671 mi	Nicaragua

Distance	Country
844 mi	El Salvador
953 mi	Costa Rica
1035 mi	Kiribati
1044 mi	Panama
1053 mi	Colombia
1121 mi	Venezuela
1248 mi	St. Kitts and Nevis
1311 mi	Antigua and Barbuda
1342 mi	France (Guadeloupe)
1366 mi	Japan

* Guadeloupe is an overseas region not a territory

Level 57

Jun 6, 2017

Kiribati was hard to know or quess.

Level 50

Aug 31, 2018

With your spelling it must be hard to get any answer...

Level 39

Jul 2, 2017

Forgot Alaska is just opposite Russia

Level 71

Jul 6, 2017

What about Bermuda? Isn't that a territory of the UK?

Level 32

Aug 30, 2017

Yes, it's a TERRITORY.

Level 47

Jul 7, 2017

Goodness gracious people! Guadeloupe is not a territory. It is an overseas region. Legally it is as much France as anywhere else in France. Just like Hawaii to the USA.

Level 63

Jul 10, 2017

i typed "honduras" but it wasn't accepted. must it be capitalized? please fix.

Level 37

Jul 21, 2017

These disagreement could go on ad infinitum. To those who got the relationships of Guadeloupe and the Caribbean Netherlands correct.

Bask in the knowledge that we are correct and the others are incorrect. That's about as much satisfaction as we're going to get

and I, for one, am tired of the arguments.

Level 44

Jul 26, 2017

*Jamaica*

Level 50

Oct 23, 2017

doesnt the us border cuba in guantanamo bay

Level 70

Apr 12, 2018

Only as much as it borders every country it has an embassy in.

Level 69

Oct 25, 2017

I just want to take a moment to compliment relessness (and Quizmaster for that matter) for their BOUNDLESS patience. <3

Level 35

Jun 26, 2019

Agreed Samiamco ... why don't people read before posting?

Level 56

Oct 25, 2017

Can't you just cut the quiz off at 20 answers to avoid the rage about Guadeloupe? Also, in the explanation below the quiz, Guadeloupe is misspelled Guadelope.

Level 64

Oct 25, 2017

This comment section is priceless... lol

Level 73

Oct 25, 2017

Didn't know about the France thing. Everyday's a school day!

Level 48

Oct 25, 2017

Guadeloupe is a "région française d'outre-mer", literally an overseas region of France: it should not be included in the list.

Level 37

Nov 23, 2017

Why shouldn't it? - A Region of a country is part of that country in question, whether it is contiguous or not. Maybe the problem here

is that we don't consult our thesaurus enough! A "region francaise

d'outre mer" is the same as the non-contiguous states of the USA:

Alaska and Hawaii. By the way, similarly, the Caribish Nederland islands of St. Eustatius, Saba and Bonaire are the same to the Netherlands as Utrecht, Amsterdam or Den Haag. They are all intrinsically part of the Netherlands, unlike St.Maarten, Curacao

nd Aruba who have country status within the Kingdom. (COUNTRY,

not Sovereign Nation status). If this is all utterly confusing, blame

the politicians!

Level 68

Oct 15, 2023

Also, if you want to get technical about it, Guadeloupe is a "Département et Région d'outre-mer", a "DROM", which is just a slightly longer way of saying that it's not a territory.

Level 52

Oct 25, 2017

Grenada, Barbados, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago?

Level 75

Oct 25, 2017

If Guadeloupe counts as an intrinsic region of France - and it should - then Saba/Sint Eustatius/Bonaire should bring the Netherlands into play as they are special municipalities of the Netherlands proper, ie an integral part of the home country itself. Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten are, like Greenland, separate constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (and the Kingdom of Denmark).

Level 77

Oct 25, 2017

I don't think Guadaloupe should count (partly because its the only one I didn't get!) but mostly coz its an overseas territory of France which you specifically rule out in the brief.....

Thanks

Level 37

Nov 23, 2017

Read the instructions, read the comments or go back to sleep!

Level 62

Oct 25, 2017

I don't understand why nobody reads the numerous comments and responses regarding Guadalupe before posting their own on this thread. How many times does the same question need to be answered?

Level 45

Dec 5, 2017

I said Guadeloupe it didn't work

Level 55

Jan 14, 2018

There are a lot of politically illiterate people in this audience. How can you understand that Hawaii and Alaska are non-contiguous parts of the US without being territories, yet you can't understand how the same applies to Guadeloupe?

Level 37

Aug 15, 2018

^ Amen; Amen; AMEN!

Level 69

Jan 14, 2018

All too easy :)

Level 36

Jan 20, 2018

19 seconds left

Level 20

Mar 22, 2018

wow, totally forgot about hawaii and alaska. the whole time i was trying to think of countries below the US

Level 43

Mar 22, 2018

You lied to me

Level 89

Jun 17, 2018

Sarah Palin's revenge.

Level 66

Jun 22, 2018

If your referring to the quote that she can see Russia from her house, Tina Fey said that on SNL, it wasn't Palin.

Level 82

Jun 22, 2018

That's right. Palin asserted (twice, in separate interviews) that Alaska's proximity to Russia gave her foreign policy experience.

Level 66

Jun 22, 2018

Got El Salvador with 1 second left.

Level 27

Jul 6, 2018

you said this doesn't include overseas territories, so how is france an answer?

Level 50

Aug 31, 2018

Recycled this from above: "There are a lot of politically illiterate people in this audience. How can you understand that Hawaii and Alaska are non-contiguous parts of the US without being territories, yet you can't understand how the same applies to Guadeloupe?"

Level 24

Sep 19, 2018

I tried to type "Guadeloupe" but it didn't work, so I didn't try France because I thought overseas territories don't count...

Level 76

Dec 1, 2018

Colombia is 772 miles away, at Providencia Island (population 5000).

Level 38

Feb 24, 2019

Wow, I got Kiribati with 0:58 left, didn't think that would've worked

Level 89

Aug 28, 2019

So many comments complaining about Guadeloupe. If there's anything I've learned from JetPunk, it's that people clearly don't like looking things up.

Level 74

Aug 28, 2019

What about Denmark? Greenland...

Level 68

Apr 11, 2020

Is a constituency in the Kingdom of Denmark and therefore recieves a lot of autonomy and therefore isn't considered a country or a region of Denmark, just a dependancy.

Level 55

Aug 28, 2019

This quiz is WAY too America-centrist!

Level 79

Aug 28, 2019

Guadeloupe is spelt wrong once. Please correct it

Level 38

Sep 6, 2019

Got Antigua and Barbuda in last 3 seconds

Level 56

Dec 1, 2019

Bro, if you consider France (Guadeloupe), you should consider UK (Bermudas).It is closer than Venezuela, for example

Level 76

Jan 7, 2020

Netherlands is 1215 miles away, at Saba. Saba is a part of the country of the Netherlands as well as being a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, so whichever way you define "Netherlands", that country qualifies to be an answer here.

Level 71

Feb 17, 2020

divantilya ^ has been banging on about this, correctly, for years. All six of the relevant Caribbean islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten) qualify as part of the "Kingdom of the Netherlands", three as constituent countries of the Kingdom and three as being part of the Netherlands, which is also a constituent country of the Kingdom. Jetpunk generally uses the term Netherlands as shorthand for the Kingdom, as does the UN. So I would expect any of these six islands to qualify as part of the Netherlands in a Jetpunk quiz. Therefore in this particular quiz Netherlands should be one of the answers, either because of Saba or because of St. Maarten, whichever is closer.

Level 31

Feb 19, 2020

Shouldn't St. Pierre and Miquelon be included as part of France? They're closer to U.S. territory than Guadeloupe.

Level 64

Jul 2, 2020

It is an overseas collective so not the same status.

Level 44

Mar 15, 2020

Antigua&Barbuda and France were the only ones I missed. Great quiz!

Level 68

May 29, 2020

Be normal. Use the Metric System.

Level 21

May 29, 2020

I only missed Antigua and Barbuda, Kiribati and honduras

Level 64

Jul 2, 2020

The Netherlands is missing. The three regions in the Caribbean are classed as constituent countries and not overseas territories.

Level 43

Aug 12, 2020

Missed Jamaica, El Slavador (ES), and France. - Where's Greenland?

Level 68

Oct 15, 2023

In the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere up North.

Level 60

Aug 12, 2020

I agree with the other commentators that you've missed several Caribbean microstates, including St Vincent and the Grenadines St Lucia, Grenada, El Salvador. You can't include St Kitts and Nevis and not the others. It's a clear oversight.

Level 35

Aug 30, 2020

i missed france and st kitts 👁💧👄💧👁

Level 68

Sep 10, 2020

Denmark (Greenland), and Iceland?

Level 65

Oct 14, 2020

me and the boys about to argue about the department status of guadeloupe for the 80th time

Level 68

Nov 5, 2020

Wow, these comments are a mess!

Level 58

Feb 1, 2021

I only missed france :(

Level 58

Feb 26, 2021

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica... But no Peru.

Level 34

Mar 17, 2021

our earth is a sphere ,if from Russia to the east it would be very close to the United States

Level 59

Jun 4, 2021

Yep. that's why it's listed two miles away

Level 56

May 13, 2021

i had no idea that kiribati was as close to hawaii as it is. learn something new every day.

Level 67

Aug 6, 2021

Yeah you sometimes see it all the way to the west on a map but it's easy to forget

Level 21

Jul 4, 2021

Uk too can be added

Level 21

Jul 4, 2021

Where is Brazil?It can be on the list

Level 65

Dec 22, 2021

There are other South American and North American countries that are closer but don't make the list.

Level 67

Aug 6, 2021

Missed Kiribati

Level 35

Aug 21, 2021

How is Venezuela on here but not Trinidad and Tobago?

Level 30

Sep 14, 2021

and how is Guyana not on here?

Level 39

May 17, 2022

Venezuela extends much further west than Trinidad and Tobago, and it's Venezuela's north-western point which is closest to the USA

Level 95

Sep 27, 2021

Guadeloupe is misspelled in the caveat at the end of the quiz

Level 55

Dec 22, 2021

Small correction: Columbia is closer to the US than Costa Rica and Panama for sure (not sure about Kribati, but by extension since it lands between the two, that also). That is because of San Andreas and Providencia islands off the coast of Nicaragua that are part of Columbia.

Magnificent place to vacation, by the way...

Level 59

Dec 22, 2021

if you're gonna try and make a correction, at least spell Colombia right

Level 68

Oct 15, 2023

Columbia is so close to the US that in fact, it's right on the Upper West Side of Manhattan!!

Level 24

Dec 22, 2021

Missed Guadeloupe and Japan.

Level 57

Dec 22, 2021

I got Kiribati, but not Jamaica. I overthink things way to easily😂

Level 32

Dec 22, 2021

same but with nicaragua

Level 65

Dec 22, 2021

Nice quiz.

If you will include Guadeloupe (France) however I think you should also include Sint Eustatius and Saba both as the Netherlands. Both of these are overseas municipalities of the Netherlands and are closer to the US.

I understand that this does not apply to Saint Martin as they are not a municipality of the Netherlands but an overseas country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Level 47

Dec 23, 2021

Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Anguilla and British Virgin Islands don't count as they are not Crown Dependencies but instead British Overseas Territories.

Level 61

Apr 22, 2022

UK Bermuda?

Level 39

May 17, 2022

Doesn't count as Bermuda as an overseas territory of the UK, not part of the UK itself. Unlike, say, Guadeloupe, which is actually part of France (despite being a long way from the French mainland)

Level 16

Jul 28, 2022

I had EPIC FAIL, only 13/22 :(

Level 75

Aug 11, 2022

Guadeloupe is misspelled as "Guadelope" in the note

Level 40

Jan 9, 2023

if france gets a over seas territory, then denmark should get greenland

Level 34

Oct 15, 2023

It's absolutely not the same status, Greenland is autonomous, Guadeloupe is not

Level 26

Apr 25, 2023

i said saint kitts and nevis but it never accepted it as an answer ;(

Level 34

Apr 27, 2023

I liked the quiz but got kinda confused when Venezuela is ther but not aruba or curacao when they are closer.

Level 61

Oct 16, 2023

Territories

Level 49

Aug 14, 2023

I missed Guatemala because I thought I typed it :(

Level 27

Aug 30, 2023

Cool!

Level 73

Oct 15, 2023

Colombia is definitely closer than Panama.

Level 68

Oct 15, 2023

I'd like to think that at least some of the people in these comments are trolling, but there have got to be a few who thought they'd just made a groundbreaking observation on a 8-year-old quiz and didn't bother checking a single comment to see if anyone else had had the same idea. How narcissistic do you have to be?

Level 73

Oct 15, 2023

I mean, I got France just because the header reference to overseas something something means that probably one of the countries with overseas something something is going to be on there, and there's only like 5 of those that apply

Level 21

Oct 15, 2023

I did not expect japan or france (guadelope) to be in the list, did Ecuador barely fit in the list?

Level 46

Mar 16, 2024

My first guess was U.S.A. 💀💀💀💀💀💀

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