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Flyover Countries #3

Flying the shortest distance between each of the location pairs below, what is the only country you would fly over?
Obviously not counting the countries in which the cities are in themselves
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Last updated: August 24, 2021
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First submittedJune 13, 2019
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clue
country
Copenhagen, Helsinki
Sweden
Beijing, Moscow
Mongolia
Bali, Auckland
Australia
Guatemala City, Managua
El Salvador
Tokyo, Mexico City
United States
Bern, Innsbruck
Liechtenstein
Brazzaville, Yaoundé
Gabon
Milan, Zagreb
Slovenia
Damascus, Tehran
Iraq
Sarajevo, Bucharest
Serbia
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country
Istanbul, Beirut
Cyprus
Tunis, Alexandria
Malta
Anatananarivo, Harare
Mozambique
Jakarta, Nauru
Papua New Guinea
Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh City
Taiwan
Santo Domingo, Bridgetown
Saint Lucia
Pyongyang, Okinawa
South Korea
Sana'a, Addis Ababa
Eritrea
Kabul, Manama
Iran
Ashgabat, Dushanbe
Uzbekistan
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Level 64
Aug 3, 2019
Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh City was a little surprising.
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Level 52
Aug 12, 2019
i missed half of them - but that one I got! Though admittedly, trial and error.
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Level 52
Aug 12, 2019
Thanks - these really make you think. Fun quiz.
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Level 29
Aug 12, 2019
Since you're looking at direct hypothetical flights (Santo Domingo- Bridgetown), if you flew from Porto Novo, Benin to Luanda, Angola you'd fly from the nearest international airport in Cotonou which means that the plane would just pass over Sao Tome. There's a few more like Port Moresby - Nadi, Paramaribo- Brasilia is a weird one, in a similar vein but much much cooler you also have Antananarivo - Cairns, Australia maybe even Antananarivo - Mogadishu if you're feeling lucky and if you want to be controversial try Sao Paulo - Sydney.
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Level 59
Jan 13, 2021
I'm not 100% sure about Pyongyang to Palau (measuring from Ngerulmud), on Google Maps, i'm hitting Amami Oshima in Japan's Ryukyu Islands...
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Level 76
Jan 14, 2021
Agreed! We've updated the clue.
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Level 71
Aug 24, 2021
I feel like such an idiot right now. I know Sarajevo is in Bosnia but for some reason today I kept thinking it was in Serbia... which led me to type-in every country in the Balkans EXCEPT for Serbia :P
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Level 53
Aug 6, 2022
In Dark Mode, the Jakarta and Nauru clue is in black, which makes it look slightly strange.