You need to specify which college. The prime meridian is at Greenwich, just east of the centre of London, UK.
Downtown Los Angeles is 118.25° west of the Prime Meridian. The distance from Los Angeles to the nearest point on the Prime Meridian is 3,866 miles. (The nearest point on the Prime Meridian is the north Pole.)
24885 miles
Los Angeles is on the western side of the prime meridian. The whole U.S. is in the western hemisphere, therefore all of the U.S. is on the west side of the prime meridian. :)
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Durban, Manitoba . . . . . about 2,640 miles., Durban, South Africa . . . about 1,825 miles.
Hatteras Island is at about 75.5 degrees west longitude. If you want to visit the Prime Meridian from North Carolina, the closest point is in the open sea about midway between Norway and Greenland, where the Prime Meridian is only 3,592 miles from Cape Hatteras.
"60°W" is 60 degrees west of the Prime Meridian. "15°E" is 15 degrees east of the Prime Meridian. If they're both at the same latitude, then "60°W" is four times as far from the Prime Meridian (in miles or km) as "15°E" is. But if they're not at any particular latitudes, then it's quite possible for "15°E" to be farther from the Prime Meridian (in miles or km) than "60°W" is.
The longitude of Rome is about 12.5 degrees East.
The center of the intersection of N Hillside St and E Central Ave in Wichita is located at 97.29904° west longitude. That means it's 262.70096° east of the Prime Meridian.
That depends on what you call 'close'. Greenland occupies the range of longitude between 12.14° and 73.02° west. So the only sure thing is that there are parts of Greenland that are 60 degrees closer to the Prime Meridian than other parts of it are.
It passes through France and Spain. Portugal is too far west of Spain for the meridian to pass through it.