Quito

Ecuador

Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital of Ecuador, and the province of Pichincha. It is the largest city in Pichincha and the second-largest city in Ecuador, with an estimated population of 1.7 million in the city and 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. Quito is in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes.

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Country: Ecuador
Population: 1,701,000
Latitude: 0.21° S
Longitude: 78.5° O

Which way is Quito from…

From Paris, Quito lies at 263° to the west, 9,358 km as the crow flies.

Paris	263° west	9,358 km
London	261° west	9,225 km
New York	187° south	4,573 km
Madrid	260° west	8,743 km
Rome	271° west	10,106 km
Montreal	187° south	5,106 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	251° west	14,492 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

Just south of the equator, Quito lies west of London, at 261°, 9,225 km away, whereas a flat map would say 232°, south-west; the shortest route crosses the Caribbean Sea and then Colombia. From Washington, it is due south. And Singapore is only 288 km from Quito’s antipode.