The shortest distance between England and France over the English Channel is thirty four kilometres (twenty one miles), between Dover, in England, and Cap Gris Nez, in France.
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Scotland has a land border with England and is only a short distance from Northern Ireland across the Irish sea. The Republic of Ireland, Wales, Iceland, Denmark and Norway are all within fairly easy reach of Scotland.
There is about 281 miles between Scotland and Ireland. A flight would take about an hour when flying on a commercial airliner at 500 miles per hour.
Northern Ireland is part of the UK. Since it shares a land border with Ireland, it is theoretically possible to be in both places at once.
The shortest distance between any two points on the globe is called a "great circle" that curves toward the North Pole in the Northern Hemisphere. This is called a semi-polar route. Flying due east across Ireland would be a much farther distance than the NE path across Scotland and descending SW along the east coast of Canada. You can see this on a globe.
The shortest river in Ireland is the Garavouge in Sligoamazon
The shortest distance is 148 road miles.
The distance between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Dublin, Ireland, is 3,433 miles or 5,524 kilometers "as the crow flies."
depending on where in Ireland you started from, Scotland was one of the easiest destinations to reach. there were regular sailings to many ports from all along the west and especially north west coast of Ireland. the shortest crossings from belfast and derry took only a matter of hours.
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Scotland has a land border with only one country, England. It is only a short distance from Northern Ireland across the Irish Sea. The Republic of Ireland, Iceland, Denmark and Norway are all relatively close.