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These road distances seem to be very non-Euclidean indeed (even non-metric). It seems to be 2282km from Athens to Milan if you go directly, but if you go via Rome it is only 1403km. I thought that World is non-Euclidean, but not that obviously.
-- Jari Oksanen (on the eurodist data)
R-help (October 2004) #Rstats