What are the nearest neighbors of the United States? Canada and Mexico for sure, but what about the UK or Japan? We take a look at countries closer to the USA than you might think. Let's explore!

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Image credits:

Surprised: By Emoji One, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Warning: By Emoji One, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

North America: "Color line contacts in North America" by color line is licensed with CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Mexico: By Lokal_Profil, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Selected images and footage from Google Earth

International Date Line: By First file version uploader was User:Jailbird - No source for the course of the Date Line! (compare with e.g. Timezones2008 UTC-11.png), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

South Iwo Jima: By Karakara, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Tokyo: By Morio - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...