Can You Walk From Thailand to Norway? (12,000 km On Foot)

MapTwist - geography can feel weird.

In a straight line, Thailand to Norway is about 8,700 km, and you would have to swim the Caspian Sea. So our guy takes the long way: north into the jungles of Laos, then about 4,500 km across China and its Gobi Desert, the steppe of Kazakhstan, Russia all the way to Saint Petersburg, then Finland, Sweden and finally Norway. Over 12,000 km, more than a year of walking. Fun fact: in 1907 King Chulalongkorn of Thailand visited Norway's North Cape and carved his name into a rock there. He came by ship.

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Sources: route and distances measured on Natural Earth country data along a land-only path with no water crossings; straight-line distance from Bangkok to Oslo; King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) visited the North Cape on 14 July 1907.
Imagery: NASA Blue Marble. Map data: Natural Earth.
Photos (Wikimedia Commons): tiger leech by Dick Culbert (CC BY 2.0); Gobi Desert by A J Butler (CC BY 3.0); winter steppe by upyernoz (CC BY 2.0); Gobi sandstorm by Jeff Schmaltz, NASA (public domain). All other photos public domain or CC0.