Bogotá

Colombia

Bogotá is the capital and largest city of Colombia. The city is administered as the Capital District, as well as the capital of, though not politically part of, the surrounding department of Cundinamarca. Bogotá is a territorial entity of the first order, with the same administrative status as the departments of Colombia.

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Country: Colombia
Population: 7,772,000
Latitude: 4.6° N
Longitude: 74.09° O

Which way is Bogotá from…

From Paris, Bogotá lies at 263° to the west, 8,632 km as the crow flies.

Paris	263° west	8,632 km
London	260° west	8,501 km
New York	180° south	4,016 km
Madrid	261° west	8,021 km
Rome	271° west	9,384 km
Montreal	181° south	4,549 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	259° west	14,279 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Nothing could be simpler from New York: Bogotá is due south, at 180°, 4,016 km away. From London, though, a flat map would have you aim south-west, at 233°; the compass says 260°, west, 8,501 km away. And if you dug straight down through the Earth beneath Colombia’s capital, you would come out 202 km from Jakarta.