The US has so much space

Btw you can do it also in Germany more or less.

I believe it's possible also in France .

Edit: don't want to insult anyone, I was just curious, nothing else.

You can fly 10+ hours from France and still land in France 💀
- The sun never sets on the ~~British~~ French empire!
- Imagine the horror of not being able to escape France. Truly a fate worse than death
Yes, those are countries, not single states within a country. Different things.
- It is a fair comparison, especially within the EU.
- You guys have funny gatekeeping. Oh well, to each his own, I guess
- french guiana is part of france, and the eu.
- Well done texans 👏 the guys with rulers drew your box on the map the biggest
- You are united states tho. Similiar to EU.
For comparison, Bellingham, WA to Key West, FL. Same country, 2 days without stops.
- I tried Brazil. Got 79h going East to West from Recife to Cruzeiro do Sul and 90h going South to North from Chuí to Oiapoque. Granted, our roads aren't the best but you're still looking at over 5000km of travel either way.
Just for funsies I looked it up and Miami FL to Seattle WA is a 48 hour drive. Longest I found within the continental US upon a quick googling of recognizable cities.
In addition to the other comment about it being a single state within the US, we're also talking about roughly 1500-1600 kilometers in the Texas map. It would mostly be 70-75mph (120kph) highways the whole way.
But what would it be for Bavaria or or Lower Saxony?
You're comparing an entire country to the US' 2nd largest state of fifty, though.
- As stated in other comments I don't care about dimensions, I wanted to share just a trivia and not spark a dumb contest (spoiler, it did not work)
My question is how much of that is highway travel and/or straight? In the Texas map most of that travel will be highways at 80mph. I know Germany has the autobahn but living in Colombia has made me suspicious of long travel times which actually have short distances traveled since this country is very mountainous and I don't think a straight road exists here.
- 1/3 to 1/2 of the Texas trip will be interstate highways. The rest is mixed bag of divided highways with at grade crossings and two lane highways.
Yeah, but you aren't driving that fast in Germany, apparently. The Texas trip will be over 1,400 km.
- Yeah, but you aren’t driving that fast in Germany
  confused autobahn noises

Ok but western Australia has everybody here beat

Americans don't really care about how big AUS is, we just can't figure out how your wildlife is as deadly as our high school students
The American mind cannot comprehend this!
- How long is the drive from Nome to Juneau?
Gotta watch out for that one speed camera
I was coming in with this cause it's straighter haha.
Then see you WA post.
I've done both of these trips before too and them some to get where I'm actually going

Yep, I cannot comprehend how there is so much space allocated to so few people and they still drown in one fucking housing crisis after another.

If you are going to gobble up that much space for yourselves on this planet that we all share, stop fucking around and put it to good use!

Best I can do is another McMansion.
The housing crisis has zero to do with available space, except that in the hubs of industry, like silicon valley, there are more people wanting to live there than there's space. That's not true across the country.
But no one is going to build a house in the middle of nowhere to help with housing because (a) hardly anyone wants to live in the middle of nowhere, away from all the jobs, and (b) the people building housing are motivated to get as much money as they can.
We as a society could 100% solve the housing crisis, but it involves socialism, not capitalism, which a lot of Americans still have a problem with. The solution isn't constrained by space, which the US has tons of.
- It wouldn't even be that much socialism. Just a smidgen of housing regulations and zoning. Limit corporate ownership and rental profiteering, like any responsible capitalist democracy should with any industry.
  The problem is that an entire generation of homeowners wanted to ride the wave of residential deregulation like a fly on a windshield. Wheeee look at our property values skyrocket! We can retire on the capital gains alone! Fuck the next generation, what did they ever do for us?
- I'm all for the socialism, but could we also get the homestead act back? Free land and a grant to build a house if we're willing to go rural as fuck and grow our own food. Maybe combine with eco friendly stuff. Have to build a cob house, must use ecologically safe farming techniques.
People want to live next to people, and in specific areas. You can buy a nice house in bumfuck nowhere for cheap, or you can get an apartment in Austin for much more.
Are you suggesting that more people should live in Texas? I don’t think this is the humanitarian viewpoint that you seem to think it is lol.
What makes you think lack of space is the issue??

Just take the train...

Oh, sorry, my European mind did not realize that that option doesn't exist over there.....

We have trains, they'll just take 2-3x as long.
And I'm not really exaggerating, to get from SLC to Denver would take 15 hours (and departs at 3:30AM; no other options), vs ~8 hours in a car. Oh, if you want a sleeper car with a bunkbed, that'll be 2x the cost of a hotel room.
So yeah, it's an option, just a really crappy one.
- Took the train from Toronto to NYC in 01. No thanks. Never again. Will drive if I can.
- You just check mated yourself, mate
Even if it was Europe it would be a train from nowhere to nowhere.

Here in the UK I could spend 13 hours on the M25 and would have only gone four junctions. The American mind cannot comprehend this.

You can do the same thing a few different ways on I-40. For real along a stretch in New Mexico and Texas, there's very little between Santa Rosa and Amarillo. You can also do it here on the east coast, if you do about 40 laps of Raleigh, 25 if one of those hours is between 5 and 6 pm.

And I bet it was all filler content and shitty roaming monster encounters. Open world design has gone too far!

Last time I drove through Texas I was amazed by the sheer number of trailer parks and paycheck advance businesses I saw, even just one monster encounter would’ve been welcome.
Especially when you get to the desert biome of west Texas.

Pff, with traffic jams you can do that without ever leaving Brussels.

Drove from normandy through belgium to the netherlands. Can confirm. We saw traffic jams unlike ever before. Tried to take a shortcut, but ended up in Brussel's airport. Later after some redirections, we almost ended up in antwerpen airport too. Nothing there makes sense. Not even the parking lots.

The European mind just cannot comprehend such distances

Sweden is like a long penis that some Europeans can comprehend.
I'm conflicted is comparing a whole country travel distance to a state the same or I'm missing something? Genuinely curious. If we are talking about size of just a state do we Europeans have anything close to it?
- To be honest in my head US state == country in Europe and USA == EU. Both are unions of states - one of them is just younger and less binding.
- Us is nothing but a bunch of smaller states that formed under a united government.
  Not much unlike the entire principle of EU
Texas is one state.
- One state, with their own unique state legislation, with a federal legislation on top of that.
  Not unlike one member country of EU. With their own legislation, with EU legislation on top of that.
  Same shit different names. Except EU members actually have the power to secede if they want to.

My european mind can very well comprehend this. And a few hours more

To be fair, this Finnish trip is a solid 70 km shorter than the Texas trip, Google is just predicting it will take you longer.
The east-west trip in Texas from Orange to El Paso is 1380 km, but only takes about 12.5 hours because a big chunk of the highway has an 80 mph (130 kph) speed limit
Why is fuel called gas
- Like so many things we Americans get bitched at for saying, it's because that's what the Brits used to call it.
  A British man named John Cassell sold a brand of petroleum-based fuel trademarked as Cazeline. This eventually became Gazeline and then genericized as gasoline, shortened to "gas."
  One could ask why only "gasoline" is called "petrol" elsewhere in the world when several other fuels such as kerosene and diesel are also petroleum-based. Why isn't diesel also called "petrol?"

Texas is about the size of France you daft cunts. You just can't drive there quicker because your infrastructure is so fucked 😂

A French person takes the high speed train lmao

Oh, hon hon.
high speed train
lol, those trains are meant for cargo and military jeeps you non-American. You gotta use the highways like god intended.
I agree, our infrastructure is definitely fucked. But the US has ~10 million sq km of space to France's ~552,000 sq km.
- Europe has 10 sq km. Let's not compare pommes to oranges.

Meh... You can drive 13hrs in Australia and not see another person.

Australia enters the chat,
Oi, mate, 13 hours to cross a state, that's cute.
- It's not the same, you're using metric hours. :)
- I mean in fairness Australia is a whole ass country
- If you think that Australia is huge, you should play with navigation in Russia.
Same goes for Alaska/Canada/Russia/China. This meme must have been made by stereotypical self centered texan lmao
- Yeah, you can fit Texas 4.5 times into Yakutia in Russia.

I don't want to sound rude here but the meme is about not leaving the same state a whole Italy drive seems unfair.
- I mean the US is basically 50 countries and 3 corporations in a trenchcoat pretending to be a single country.
  Am American
- The whole nation state of Italy
- I mean that is just driving up the boot of Italy, they still have the leg and then the rest of the body to drive up.
You've shall selected the longer route of the available options. There OP is the shortest route being nearly a straight shot drive
- The shortest route in this picture is still 14h though

I didn't realise Texas was so small. Americans talk about it like it's big.

If it were a state in Australia, it would be our third-smallest.
That's more a statement on the USA's tiny states than anything specific against Texas though.

All these guys are posting crossing their whole country, but as Texas is one state, it's fair to say that's the same as a province.

Shared route From Windsor, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario via ON-401 E.

23 hr 6 min (2,190 km) For the best route in current traffic visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jmm9TmKVu79bTANq5

Staying only within Ontario, Canada it takes almost one full day of literally non stop driving.

Best I can find in Canada is in BC. I think you could get longer distances in a few other provinces, but the issue is a lack of roads/destinations in the northern corners, haha.
The 51st state is part of the USA, that's the whole point of this post. The Euros just can't grasp the size.
I guess I missed the /s
Did no one get the 51st state joke....
- Your geography lesson for today is (Google) mapping a route from Brest to Menton (France) and compare it to the route posted by OP.
Does that account for times you have to stop to brawl with a moose?
- If you're brawling with a moose then you're not a true Canadian. Every Canadian knows the moose wins every time.

There is no road between two major cities. American mind cannot comprehend this.

Alaskans would like to have a word
I actually don't, how do you get to the other city? i assume there has to be some way.
- Tectonic plate shifts

This whole thread is the strangest dick measuring contest.

Not even the longest route within one state by a long shot:

As usual, California beats Texas

Is Arizona in California now?
- Yeah, it was annexed yesterday.
This blew my European mind. Not because of the length of the road, but because it's only 7$.... Where I live highways are bloody expensive!
- Youse pay for highways?
Oh neat! A long state. Everybody knows girth is more important.

Welcome to Finland.

Fastest route from south of Norway to north of Norway would be through Sweden and take you 1 day and 6 hours, if you want to stay in Norway for the whole route it would take you 1 day and 11 hours. Driving to Rome would be faster.
https://i.imgur.com/qPXeDeN.png
- Damn, i was like " how slow are you travelling in norway? New zealand guy also posted ca 2500 km and it just took him 29 hours. How can he do it in less than a day when you need almost two days"
Except Finland is a country and Texas is just one state in a country. That's where the confusion usually results.
If I could move to any country in the world, it would be Finland. Cleanest air and water in the world. Here in salt lake city Utah, we have a magnesium facility for national security purposes due to China cornering the market that puts a lot of very nasty stuff in the air. Due to our geography of a valley surrounded by mountains, in the winter sometimes inversions happen and that + all the other airborne pollutants will be trapped & the citizenry gets to breath that 😅😂
- I don't think China has got the power. It is in fact USA or specifically local factories that should be held accountable

European here (Brit). I could drive for 13 hours along the M60 and still be on the M60. No problem comprehending that.

European here (Brit).
I detect a lie. You aren't in Europe anymore. Sorry that your stupid brethren voted you out, but you're just not. Hope you have a good day!
- TIL if you're not part of EU then you're not in Europe.
Are you still European post-brexit? Also, your island isn't attached to the Eurasian continent

You cannot drive 13 hours from Texas and still be in Texas. In order to drive from someplace you have to leave there.

You can drive 13 hours through Texas. That’s possible.

I keep telling everybody that says the US is full that I've been to the fucking Dakotas and I disagree.

Now someone reverse it for me, what's the MOST amount of countries you can drive through in 13 hours?

Best bet might be the Balkans. Lots of countries between Hungary and Greece and not a huge distance, although it's hampered by a lack of fast roads.
Are you obeying the speed limits or Cannonball Running it?

"In the US, 100 years is a long time, but in Europe, 100 miles is a long way"

Europe is bigger than the US though
- No. The US is easily from the furthest west of Europe to the furthest east of Turkey, plus some more. It has a lot less water too.
  https://images.app.goo.gl/f1g4uccuF4MfpcyH8

I know lots of euro bros are showing how long their country is, but I think the point is that Texas is a state, not country. When you compare those things it's quite impressive, however still not even the largest state in the world. Here are some others. A nice drive from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay will cost you 17 hours, or in Amazonas, Brazil, Manaus to Cruzeiro do Sul is 33 hours.

To the guy who annexed Arizona into California in order to beat Texas, shame.

But heres the thing we don't really have states we have countries
- Most European nations still have some form of provinces/states. Even itty bitty Switzerland is made up of a bunch of different Cantons.

Western Australia has entered the chat

these North Americans sure are cute, aren't they?

That's not driving for 25 hours, unless you're driving on water.
Does it really count if you're taking a ferry? You're not even driving and your car gets to rest like it just pulled an 12 hour shift.
That's multiple countries....
834miles? Is that a joke?
That's only 12hrs if you drive the speed limit

I miss the days when Google maps would tell you to get in a canoe for transoceanic routes.

I suspect some enterprising person actually tried it, thus depriving the rest of us our directional humor.

Relevant xkcd

You can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and end up in Russia:

Google maps don't let me zoom out to show entire route.

EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours:

Wait, it's not even the longest. Magadan, anyone?
- From Zapolarniy to Magadan, 1 hour more:

Let's not talk driving hours, let us talk mileage. 13 hours on a Texas highway is going to cover much more land than trying to drive some 12th century side street in an Italian village at 5km/h.

It was crazy to realize on a recent road trip through the middle of the US, that half of my day's planned drive was the width of Germany.

You can drive for 10 hours and 30 minutes and still be in Germany.

22 hours from south to northern sweden, and that's basically all on the most important highways of the nation! If you do the trip when no one else is out, that should be a smooth 120km/h alsmost constantly.
And barring some minor projection weirdness, it's slightly longer than the longest distance in texas!

Giggles in aussie

A lot of you guys sharing pictures of your whole country as a 15 hour drive are missing the point here.

The European mind can't comprehend it

granted, half of that time is sitting in san antonio traffic.

Sure, but I can drive for more than 11 hours and still be in Romania 👍

America to America, 2 days.

Tbf you drive super slow on your lonely highways. If that Was an Autobahn you could easily cut that time in half.

I am curious how true this. All the Europeans on tiktok discussing America (it's a new trend) say we all drive faster than they are used to, and how our speed limits seem to be suggestions to us.
- Europeans on average drive slow, but the comments are about Germans. We are special (in every sense of that word).

oh look, an international dick measuring contest... except without dicks!

Euros: Why didn't Americans go to other countries?

Americans: there's only three countries on our entire damned continent, and ours is in the middle. Without needing to fly we have literally two choices. It we could drive for a thousand miles and still be in America.

All of continental Europe is smaller than our country and we mostly all speak the same language, more or less. It's debatable if Louisianans speak English.

there's only three countries on our entire damned continent
There's almost 50 if you don't account for sovereignty.
America has more than 3 countries, if i remember well from my geography class

i can drive for 13 hours and not leave my driveway (i dont know how to drive)

Meanwhile in Canada it takes nearly a full day to drive from one side of Ontario to the other. I have more faith in the European mind comprehending this than the USA'ean mind.

Ok, I will bite. Why do you have faith in a European mind to comprehend distance over an American?
- "AmUriKa dUmB" -likely OP
That's not to bad

Extra Points if you count all the confederate flags and truck nuts that you see along the way!

I bet it would take half as long without all that construction…
Not europe
- Correct! That's very good for an American :)

With a car crappy enough you can take much longer for a much shorter distance

A German and a Texan meet in a bar.
The Texan says: "When I get in my car and just drive once around my property, it takes all day."
The German says: "Yeah, I had a car like that once."

Fucking eat it Texas!

Wtf is a Woonsocket?
- Its where you plug in your pawtucket

The US has so much space

Yet property is expensive and mostly owned by the wealthy🤦‍♂️

Abs a bunch of it not really easily inhabitable because there’s no water sources. I keep arguing with my wife; I say the worlds getting overcrowded and she says “look at all the land in the middle of the country people could live on” smdh.

Okay, but who wants to be in Texas?

russia. need i say more?

Longest I could get is 5.25 days.

You can do that and still not get all the way through Nordland county (!) in Norway 🤷

In North America, we think 100 years is a long time. In Europe they think 100 miles is a long distance.

Honestly have no idea how far 100 miles is. 100 km however is not too bad.
- Does 1 hour 40 minutes help?
- A mile is 1.6KM, so 160 KM

My european mind doesn't give a shit about the us , it doesn't even think of it .

We should turn the entire desert in Texas into a solar farm, and provide enough electricity for the entire world.

Solar and wind power is really big in Texas already. Maybe it could be done!

Finland: 17 hours from Utsjoki to Helsinki.
Norway: 36 hours from Vardø to Lindsenes.
Sweden: idk why you'd go there

Yes, I can nearly feel my European mind shambling.

That's your entire country. This is just Texas.
- I was not referrring to the headline of the post; I am well aware of the size of the US. I was referring to the low-brow text on the post's image.

California can be "longer". Could probably get to 14 hours.

Smith River to San Ysidro:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=california&ia=web&iaxm=directions&iax=images&end=what%3ASan%2520Ysidro%2Cwhere%3ASan%2520Diego%252C%2520CA%252C%2520United%2520States&transport=drive&start=what%3ASmith%2520River%252C%2520CA%2Cwhere%3AUnited%2520States

Americans think 13 hours in the same state is big? Cute!

The American mind can't just comprehend that there's world besides the USA. Australia, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland as many pointed out all have longer routes. Don't let me get started on Russia or we might end up with a new race between the US and Russia trying to come with the longest road.

Another thing the American mind can't just comprehend (about Europe) is how someone can drive across multiple countries without ever stopping on checkpoints/border controls/customs and most of time without even exiting/changing highways.

The American mind can’t just comprehend what it is to send money to a friend in another EU country with just a single number. No 3rd party services, no routing and account numbers, no fees, no banking shenanigans. Simply login into your European bank, type the value and the IBAN and the transfer is done. :)

To your point about driving through countries, we have free travel in between states, and there are a lot of states. So sorta? We only hit border checks going up north to Canada or south to Mexico

In northern Canada you could drive that long without even seeing another person lol

Sounds like heaven
- In winter it probably looks like heaven too.

Russia is in Europe and probably thinks that's cute.

Only because they don't all have cars. Buuut considering the amount of pollution that happens due to tires and roads n such well.. maybe we should have an overall environmental pollution index vs just looking at greenhouse gasses. I'm very pro public transit infrastructure myself.
"You know a country is great when the wealthy in society use public services like your average working Joe"

IMO the USA doesn't have that much "space" it just takes awhile to cross. Land utilization is fairly high and much of unused lands needs constant conservation efforts to maintain wildlife.

I mean, you have tons of space there. You spent much time in more densely populated places? I live in China and there are 5 to 6 x more people here for the same size land area as the US. There is so much less free space. Very, very much less!
- If the space is inhabited by nature or agriculture then it isn't "free space". Free space is empty paved lots, barren brine pits, etc.

It seems the European mind is not that bright if you think a country's distance is equivalent to a state.