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Gamma Crucis (Gacrux) is the closest red giant to us, at a distance of about 88 light years.

However, semantics aside, Arcturus is probably the closest red giant to us at a distance of about 36 light years. Although it has a spectral class of K1 putting it as an upper limit orange giant, some texts do refer to it as a red giant.

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