4000 miles
South America
Africa
The Bering Strait is not between Asia and Africa. It is between Asia and America. The distance between Asia and America at the narrowest point of the Bering Strait is 51 miles (82 kilometers, 44 mmi).
The distance between North America and South America 5,231 miles. In terms of flight time, it would be approximately 10 hours and 25 minutes.
what went to from Africa to North America
The Atlantic
That is the Atlantic.
Between the continents of North and South America to its west and Europe and Africa to its east.
9,463 miles
Based on Google Earth armchair exploration, and if Greenland is considered part of North America and Iceland part of Europe, the shortest distance between North America and Europe is 733 miles.
North America is northernmost extending well into the Arctic Ocean. Africa resides almost entirely between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn.
North America is more north than Africa.