r/geography • u/True_Antelope8860 • 2d ago

Whats the place you refer to when something is very very far Discussion

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u/AndreHan 2d ago

In Italy we often refer to Honolulu!

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u/Ashamed-Bus-5727 2d ago

Jordan too! Also Bora Bora sometimes

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u/hooligan99 2d ago

Honolulu to Bora Bora can be 16 hrs, and 9 of that is a layover in a different part of Tahiti. Flight time is under 7 hrs.

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u/smakola 2d ago

They got the are of origin wrong

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u/zaxonortesus 2d ago

Yep, spot on. Saturday flight on Hawaiian Airlines from HNL into Papeete, then a Tahiti Air flight over to Bora Bora. Easy peasy travel, but the night on Tahiti is almost inevitable. Or just go stay in Moorea for a few nights first!

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u/willirritate 2d ago

Jordan is right across the lake

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u/Ashamed-Bus-5727 2d ago

Yup. My balcony in my hotel in Rome really felt like I was in Amman with somewhat similar architecture and similar gardens❤️

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u/willirritate 2d ago

Roughly the same distance to each other than London and Athens.

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u/Rex--Nemorensis 1d ago

I think they’re saying that in Jordan, they say “Honolulu” like in Italy.

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u/NoEnd917 1d ago

Honolulu in Israel too! I wonder why is that

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u/Ashamed-Bus-5727 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think it's because it sounds funny like I literally thought it's made up lol

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u/OStO_Cartography 2d ago

Although I use Timbuktu, I also sometimes say it's not all the way in Bora Bora. Just like the way it sounds.

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u/Every_Addition8638 2d ago

Mai sentito, io uso timboktu

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u/Mediocre-Scheme7442 2d ago

Idem. Honolulu lo usa solo Mago Metlino

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u/AndreHan 2d ago

E timbuctu gli Aristogatti !

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u/kopronface 1d ago

Io uso Canicattì

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u/zaxonortesus 2d ago

Wow… I live in Honolulu so it’s wild to think that I’m that ‘far away place’ to someone!

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u/SaddamJose 1d ago

https://preview.redd.it/9lgwkmog3a9e1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef9194247e349367c69a267cc6a5da2e8ff0ba34

No, I see it

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u/zaxonortesus 1d ago

Hey, I can see my house from there!

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u/zombuca 1d ago

You need to mow your lawn.

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u/zaxonortesus 1d ago

Joke’s on you, I live in a condo!

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u/Specimen_E-351 1d ago

Isn't Honolulu far away from pretty much everything?

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u/zaxonortesus 1d ago

I mean, the other islands are a 20 min flight, Tahiti is like 5 hours. LA is just over 5. We’ve got direct flights to Tokyo, Seoul, and Sydney… you call it far away, I call it centrally located.

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u/Specimen_E-351 1d ago

Centrally located in the middle of the ocean perhaps!

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u/thintoast 1d ago

Centrally located in the middle of nowhere.

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u/Eggersely 1d ago

A five hour flight from the nearest anything is pretty far.

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u/Will_Come_For_Food 1d ago

You just described something that’s farther away than one way everything else

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u/mustbethaMonay 1d ago

It is the most isolated population center on the globe

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u/Left_Somewhere_4188 1d ago

Broski you're in the middle of the pacific ocean you're far away for everyone

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u/Throwawaymister2 1d ago

To everyone*

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u/vanphil 2d ago

Or more often we try to keep it local

https://preview.redd.it/zhfwl90bm99e1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bf57f86a3d2d4aa19fa2afaf5b4fae8172fb6f0

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u/gattomeow 1d ago

Now imagine if you replaced the second letter “c” with “g”.

Baumiau

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u/Scuntintizza 1d ago

Questo assolutamente haha

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u/Tiny_Cartoonist_6188 2d ago

In germany we do both. Honululu and Timbuktu!

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u/Mysterious_Ice_2353 2d ago

Romania too.

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u/chemistry_teacher 1d ago

Hey, I’m in Honolulu right now! I use Botswana because it’s literally on the opposite side of the world (the antipode) from us!

But Italy works! You’re twelve time zones away from us!! 🤙🏽🏝️

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u/Parhel1on 2d ago

I'm curious as to how you guys pronounce it over there! Do you say "Hoh-noh-lulu" or "hah-nah-lulu"?

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u/AndreHan 2d ago

It is as it is written, ho no lu lu

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u/Parhel1on 2d ago

Right on, thank you. People in the U.S. mispronounce it all the time (hana-lulu) and it's an easy way to figure out who's from Hawai'i and who's not.

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u/InfinityEternity17 1d ago

Where do they get the a from lmao

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u/Blaistashen_Nein 1d ago

From being American lol

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u/Parhel1on 1d ago

People are downvoting you, but this is the right answer

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u/Wide-Account-9688 1d ago

It's actually closer to oh-noh-lulu. We don't pronounce the h

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u/Various-Ducks 1d ago

Thats funny, my italian grandparents use that and ive never understood why because we dont live in italy and arent really that far from honolulu, relatively speaking

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u/TonTonOwO 1d ago

Mai sentito. Forse in nord Italia?

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u/CantHostCantTravel 2d ago

But Honolulu is a major international air hub. You can get there from pretty much anywhere on Earth in a day!

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u/ItsChrisRay 1d ago

But it sounds funny to Italians, that’s key

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u/Butterpye 1d ago

I'm pretty sure the expression predates airplanes

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u/Will_Come_For_Food 1d ago

That’s true about literally everywhere on earth. The only difference is you’re surrounded by 5000 miles of ocean.

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u/CantHostCantTravel 1d ago

Not Timbuktu. There are no commercial flights that even fly there due to the conflict and instability as well as international sanctions, so you would have to charter a private jet just to get there, or drive 15 hours from Bamako. Even in 2024, it’s an extremely difficult place to get to.

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u/MRocket89 1d ago

In Italy (at least this part of Italy) we also say Papuasia 🤣

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u/Abiduck 1d ago

Do we? I normally stick to the more esoteric version - the house of god…

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u/AndreHan 1d ago

In Tuscany yes, i mean, we use cmore often culonia and culisbonia but of i have to choose a city , the first one that comes to my mind Is honolulu, followed by bora bora and timbuktu

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u/Darwidx 1d ago

Same in Poland.

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u/monkeyalex123 1d ago

My family is Polish and they use it too haha

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u/kommunia 1d ago

Culo di giove??

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u/Technique_01 1d ago

Non è "where the Lord lost his sandals?"

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u/breadycapybara 1d ago

In Honolulu! I say anywhere is far away from me 😝

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u/Borderedge 1d ago

I honestly never heard of it and I can't think of a generic Italian one.

In Sardinia we use the town of Pompu, still in Sardinia , when we have to say something like this ie. Andare a Pompu.

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u/xRyozuo 1d ago

In Spain as well. Or China

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u/sippor 1d ago

Maybe I'm old 😅 but when I was a child in Northern Italy we used to refer to Canicattì, which Is a sicilian village in the Agrigento county, where the railway ended...

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u/DarthSpaghetti10k 13h ago

Io spesso dico in cu** ai lupi o in cu** al mondo

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u/Pistolafiapaaa 1d ago

Io dico in "culonia"

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u/chattywww 1d ago

Italy (pair) is the only country that actually has a land mass on the opposite side of the Earth. Im very disappointed they didnt use a New Zealand location.

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u/374858285856 1d ago

Actually Italy opposite is 2000km east of NZ, but yeah, NZ is the farthest country (the closest to "ylatI")