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The Furthest Place On Earth From Wherever You're Located

Here's Where To Go If You Want To GetFar Away
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Do you ever just want to get away? How about far away? How about as far away as possible?

FurthestCity is a nifty little website that lets you know the farthest city from wherever you're currently located.

We really couldn't help ourselves and looked up the farthest locations of some of the world's major cities. For your specific location, check out FurthestCity.com.

If You Live In New York City, Escape To Perth, Australia

Distance: 11,613 miles

If You Live In Los Angeles, Escape To Saint-Paul, La Réunion

Distance: 11,446 miles

If You Live In Shanghai, Escape To Concordia, Argentina

Distance: 12,397 miles

If You Live In Paris or London, Escape To Dunedin, New Zealand

Distance: 11,839 miles from Paris, 11,852 miles from London

If You Live In Sydney, Escape To San Cristóbal De La Laguna, Spain

Distance: 11,604 miles

If You Live In Tokyo, Escape To Criciúma, Brazil

Distance: 11,713 miles

If You Live In Buenos Aires, Escape To Jiangsu Province, China

Distance: 12,188 miles

If You Live In Cairo, Escape To Tauranga, New Zealand

Distance: 10,363 miles

If You Live In Cape Town, Escape To Honolulu, Hawaii

Distance: 11,529 miles

Tell us in the comments where the furthest place on Earth is from your location!

Before You Go

The World's Most Secluded Beaches
Hidden Beach, Puerto Vallarta(01 of10)
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Located on the remote Marieta Islands off Puerto Vallarta, this beach was once a military practice site used by the Mexican government in the early 1900s. Now, ecological tours that offer snorkeling and kayaking are the name of the game on "Hidden Beach." (credit:Pegaso Chartering / HotSpot / Landov)
Alter do Chão, Brazil(02 of10)
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A popular destination among the smell set of travelers looking to relax in the Amazon, Alter do Chão is an aggressively scenic town in the Para state near the city of Santarém. A perfectly formed sandbar, known as the Island of Love, sits in front of the colorful downtown, drawing tourists out into the moving waters. Travelers won't have the beach to themselves, but the expanse of the Amazon is an amazing thing to contemplate from the inside. (credit:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Flickr" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9dd396e4b03a1dcc8d6a82" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="11" data-vars-position-in-unit="12">Flickr</a>:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61734006@N00/85309910" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="In&#xE1;cio Guerberoff" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9dd396e4b03a1dcc8d6a82" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61734006@N00/85309910" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="12" data-vars-position-in-unit="13">Inácio Guerberoff</a>)
Kaihalulu, Hawaii(03 of10)
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Sometimes referred to as Red Sand Beach, Kaihalulu is off the beaten path in the sense that the only way to get there is to take a rather dangerous, winding path along the Maui coast. The reward for anyone daring enough to make the hour or so long trek is having a brick-red swathe of paradise to themselves. Though swimming can be a bit dangerous thanks the tides and undertows, this may be Hawaii's ultimate hang out. (credit:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kaihalulu_Red_Sand_Beach.JPG" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Tom Walsh / Wikipedia " data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9dd396e4b03a1dcc8d6a82" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kaihalulu_Red_Sand_Beach.JPG" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="10" data-vars-position-in-unit="11">Tom Walsh / Wikipedia </a>)
Lofoten, Norway(04 of10)
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Certainly the coldest beach to make this list, Lofoten's white sand crescent is no less scenic for abutting the frigid waters that lap Norway's frozen north. As with many beaches in the Lofoten Islands and in other arctic archipelagoes, the beach here looks paint-by-numbers Caribbean. The water is turquoise and the sand a whiter shade of pale. The backdrop, however, is all fjordland drama and pickled herring. Visitors come here from the mainland on the ferry to enjoy the pristine beauty. They do not generally go swimming. (credit:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Flickr" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9dd396e4b03a1dcc8d6a82" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="8" data-vars-position-in-unit="9">Flickr</a>:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/83063824@N05/7789570566" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="cichlidee1" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9dd396e4b03a1dcc8d6a82" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/photos/83063824@N05/7789570566" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="9" data-vars-position-in-unit="10">cichlidee1</a>)
West Island, Keeling Archipelago(05 of10)
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A paint smattering of atolls in the southern Indian Ocean, the Keeling Islands are about as close to a tropical paradise as is still accessible to man. Though this Australian protectorate has little infrastructure, there are places to stay on West Island, one of the few specks of land that actually boast a human population. Visitors will find ample bird life and views uninterrupted by, well, anything. The downside is, of course, that getting here is not a picnic. Flights leave the lonely city of Perth on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. (credit:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Flickr" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9dd396e4b03a1dcc8d6a82" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="6" data-vars-position-in-unit="7">Flickr</a>:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53074617@N00/2434397048" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Wolfgang Staudt" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9dd396e4b03a1dcc8d6a82" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53074617@N00/2434397048" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="7" data-vars-position-in-unit="8">Wolfgang Staudt</a>)
Cabo Pulmo, Mexico(06 of10)
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Though only about 60 miles northeast of Cabo San Lucas, Pulmo National Park is a too rarely visited secret. The long beach cradles a warm, shallow bay thick with life. The backdrop, arid montains and jangling mariachi music. This is what Mexico would be like if it had the same population as Rhode Island. (This slide originally stated that Pulmo was south of Cabo San Lucas. It isn't. That is an ocean.) (credit:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Flickr" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9dd396e4b03a1dcc8d6a82" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="4" data-vars-position-in-unit="5">Flickr</a>:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25483059@N08/5323335391" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="jeffgunn" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9dd396e4b03a1dcc8d6a82" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25483059@N08/5323335391" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="5" data-vars-position-in-unit="6">jeffgunn</a>)
Tombua, Angola(07 of10)
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To say that there are beaches in Southern Angola is both inarguably true and a bit misleading. The beaches here aren't so much beaches as bays that are part of an unending beach running almost a thousand miles down the west coast of Africa sometimes referred to as the Skeleton Coast. Though the beach south of Tombua is spectacular, it makes this list because -- unlike other portions of this coast -- it is actually accessible, there being a fine line between secluded and unreachable. A little advice: Bring water. (credit:WikiMedia:)
Necker Island, BVI(08 of10)
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Though not too far removed from the touristed islands of Virgin Gorda and Tortola, Necker Island's beaches may be the most secluded in the world because there is only one way to get there: Have a ton of money. Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson's island paradise is available to rent if you're sitting on an undisclosed, but certainly absurd, pile of cash or if you're friend's with the ponytailed corporate charmer. It is like that old joke about getting to Symphony Hall if you replace "practice" with "hiding earnings in various tax havens." (credit:WikiMedia:)
Cabo Polonio, Uruguay(09 of10)
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If this lonely strip of sand were anywhere else, it'd be chock-a-block with condo development and $500-a-night hotels, packed with gliterati and snow birds griping about high prices and traffic jams. Fortunately, Cabo Polonio is in Uruguay, where its mere geography, hundreds of miles from anywhere, keep it almost untouched, save for the few families that call this windswept point home year round. A few months a year, during the height of the Southern Hemisphere's summer, backpackers and Brazilians make their way here for off-the-grid relaxation and some windsurfing, setting up tents just off the sand and generally making what could only be called a scene in a place where there's no such thing. (credit:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Flickr" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9dd396e4b03a1dcc8d6a82" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="1" data-vars-position-in-unit="2">Flickr</a>:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/11636080@N00/6525595131" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Remco Douma" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9dd396e4b03a1dcc8d6a82" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/photos/11636080@N00/6525595131" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="2" data-vars-position-in-unit="3">Remco Douma</a>)
Kamaran, Yemen(10 of10)
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The pristine sandy beaches and aquamarine waters of Kamaran Island wasn't always secluded. In ages past, this Red Sea hideaway attracted traders making their way towards the bustling ports of East Africa. Thanks to political and social unrest -- booking a flight to Sana'a is neither easy nor advisable -- this obscure corner of the Arabian peninsula is lonelier than ever though no less beautiful. The snorkeling here is excellent and the resort is actually quite lovely. One catch, don't bring your bikini. (credit:Getty Images)

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