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What countries capital is Bairiki?
Bairiki is in Kiribati. However, Kiribati's capital is South Tarwa, not Bairiki.
What city is the furthest away from the prime maridian?
This is a tricky one.The Prime Meridian is a line that joins the north and south poles, passing throughEngland, France, Spain, five African countries, a lot of Ocean, and Antarctica. To findthe point "furthest away" from the Prime Meridian, we have to find the point that'sfurthest away from the whole thing ... every part of it, including the poles.That single point is the point on the Equator at 180° longitude, but that doesn't quitegive us the answer to the question yet. The actual point is out in the big middle ofthe Pacific Ocean, and there isn't much around it, but the question asks for the "city"furthest away from the Prime Meridian. So we have to start at the point 0°N/180°,and look for the closest city to it.The nearest population center we can find that might be called a 'city' is about490 miles to the west-northwest, in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands.There, on South Tarawa, is the village of Bairiki, which serves as the capitaland seat of government of the island nation of Kiribati.The distance from Bairiki to points on the Prime Meridian varies from a minimumof 6,128 miles to a maximum of 11,939 miles. We'll put this out there as ouranswer to the question, and challenge other contributors to come up with adifferent city, town, or village whose minimum distance from any point on thePrime Meridian is greater than 6,128 miles (9,862 km).
